3600 B.P.


That would place the destruction of "Sodom" a bit late, around 1580 B.C.


However, depending on which chronology we follow...

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A "Progenitor" chronology that placed Abraham's birth at Anno Mundi (AM) 1600 and the foundation of the Temple at AM 2800. Alfred Jepsen proposed this chronology on the basis of melding time periods in the Samaritan and Masoretic recensions.


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That places the birth of Abraham only twelve hundred years before the foundation of the first temple and his call to enter Canaan seventy-three years later, one thousand one hundred and twenty seven years before the foundation of the first temple.


That temple was to have started in the fourth regional year of Solomon whose reign conventional historians place around 970-931 BC. So the temple would have been started around 966 BC.


Adding 1,127 years to 966 BC leaves us about 2,093 BC for Abraham's calling to Canaan which is supposed to take place around the same time as the destruction of Sodom.


This would place the destruction of "Sodom" about five hundred years earlier.


Could the bible have placed this more recent event into the more distant past?


Is the chronology of the OT kind of off?

The similarity between the location AND destruction of this city and the biblical Sodom seems uncanny.