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We conclude that the Scriptures furnish no data for a chronological computation prior to the life of Abraham; and that the Mosaic records do not fix and were not intended to fix the precise date either of the Flood or of the creation of the
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He was ordained in 1848 and was pastor of the Central Presbyterian church of Philadelphia from 1849 to 1851. From August 1851 until his death, in
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The Hebrew Feasts in their Relation to Recent Critical Hypotheses Concerning the Pentateuch
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entitled "Primeval Chronology" in which he strongly criticized Irish Archbishop
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by William Henry Green, 1872 Third Edition; PDF available on Internet Archive
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Additionally, in 1890 he published a highly influential article in
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He was the scholarly leader of the orthodox wing of American
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Genevan Institute for Reformed Studies: Primeval Chronology
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committee of the Anglo-American Bible revision committee.
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Hank Green

Groveville, New Jersey
Princeton, New Jersey
Hebrew language
Groveville
Bordentown, New Jersey
Jonathan Dickinson
College of New Jersey
Princeton University
Lafayette College
mathematics
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, New Jersey
American Philosophical Society
Princeton College
Gesenius
Rödiger
Ewald
Nordheimer
Pentateuch
Book of Genesis
Old Testament
James Ussher
King James Bible
Presbyterianism
moderator of the General Assembly
Old Testament

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