History Online - Chronology

The "modern textbook" GCD also possesses other portions that differ from E, contain duplicates and are resolvable into the sum of several "shifted chronicles". This can be applied to biblical history, too. We have already mentioned above that the Bible contains many duplicates (see the line B).

It was not accidental that in the description of B we had used the same letter symbols as for the "European" line E. As a matter of fact, B turns out to be completely coincident (identical) with the part of E, describing Roman-Greek-European ancient and medieval history. More precisely, This overlapping of B and part of E, if the time scale is taken into account, is shown in Fig. 32.
It can be seen that the line B (Old and New Testament) overlaps with the part of the "European textbook" E from 850 B.C. to A.D. 1400,; However, since the Bible contains many duplicates, the entire Old Testament as well as the "modern textbook" E can be completely restored from its lesser part, namely, be placed to the right of A.D. 300.

Moreover, in reality, practically all of the Old Testament, just as the whole Bible and line E, can be restored from its part describing the events traditionally dated by 960-1400.

Meanwhile, the NewTestament probably describes the events occurring in the llth century, duplicates that, in partrcniar the epoch of Jesus, the turn of the millennium, is a duplicate of the "epoch of Hildebrand", the famous Gregory VII (llth century). It is precisely "Hildebrand's epoch" that opens the Crusaders' era marked by the famous separation of the churches in A.D. 1054 and begins the new, Reformation Church in Europe.

Overlapping of the line B (Old Testament) with part of line E was obtained by me by formally applying the above methods. We shall demonstrate this by the volume graphs compared by means of the coefficient d(X,Y) (see above). Consider the interval from 800 B.C. to A.D. 1300 in Italian and European history. We take the sum of two fundamental monographs, namely, Niese from 800 B.C. to A.D. 552 and Gregorovius [53] from A.D. 300 to 1300. Combining the two sources, we obtain a text X now describing the whole interval (A,B). We then break X into the union of fragments X(T), which permits us to construct the volume graph for the chapters X(T) in the whole interval from 800 B.C. to A.D. 1300, i.e. 2,100 years long.
We now consider the Old Testament (Chapter generations 1-170). The Chapter volume graph should be constructed and compared with the corresponding graph for X, the difficulty being that the Bible has no time scale which would be sufficiently detailed. However, as has already been indicated, the Bible admits a practically unique decomposition into the chapter gen-erations B(T), where the ordinal number T varies from 1 to 218. Consider the first 137 chapter generations, i.e., from Genesis to the Second Book of Kings. Since the First and Second Books of Samuel and Kings duplicate the First and Second Books of Chronicles, Chapters 138-167 duplicate Chapters 98-137; therefore, we are not interested in them now. Chapters 103-137 have been described in the First and Second Books of Kings with detailed chronological indications, which permits us to determine the length of the described time interval to rather considerable accuracy: It is 341 years. Such circumstantial chronological information for the remaining Chapters 1-102 is absent in the Bible; hence, to find the time interval described, we have to do it in a rather rough manner.The analysis of Chapters 1-102 has shown that while describing the events j of one generation, almost every one relates the latter to some principal historical figure, i.e., a "ruler", whose "rule" can be taken as the "duration" of the generation. We have already said earlier that the mean duration of a rule l equals 17.1 years in the whole of ancient and medieval history fixed in written ' sources, i.e., approximately 17 years.
Basing ourselves on this mean value, we t obtain that the period "covered" by 102 generations can be estimated to be japproximately 102-17 = 1734 years long. Thus, we can assume that the period described in the "historical part" of the Old Testament (without moralistic texts) is 1734 + 341 = 2075 years. We see that this figure turns out to be extremely close to 2,100 years, i.e., the period described in the text X (see above). Therefore, we can compare the chapter volume graphs for X and the Old Testament, for which we have to refer the texts to one and the same scale. The simplest of them may be the partition of the whole (A,B) = 800 B.C. to A.D. 1300 into 19 line segments, arising if we single out in (A,B) all the epochs T discovered above while analyzing the GCD.