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Article: The Missing Four Hundred Years.(biblical chronology, between book of Joel (c. 400 BCE) and Jewish Revolt against the Romans (66 CE))
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- Article date:
- December 1, 2000
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You decide to read the Bible through from Genesis to Malachi This time you want to read it in chronological order, not in the order in which the books appear in the Hebrew Scriptures, nor in the order in which they were written, but the order in which the events and people actually appear on the stage of time.
And so you do. You have a little problem sorting out the sequence of the "minor" prophets, but eventually you do. And you find that the last four books -- chronologically -- are actually Malachi (c. 460 BCE), Ezra/Nehemiah (c. 445 BCE), and Joel (c. 400 BCE).
In Malachi you read that beautiful conversation between Man and God, and you read that God ...