![]() While difficulties with biblical texts make it impossible to reach sure conclusions, perhaps the most widely held hypothesis is that it embodies an overall scheme of 4,000 years (a "great year") taking the re-dedication of the Temple by the Maccabees in 164 BCE as its end-point. The Masoretic Text is the basis of modern Jewish and Christian bibles. This scheme served as "the basis for the later Septuagint chronology and pre-SP Samaritan Pentateuch chronologies". ![]()
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