<P> During the centuries that Biblical texts and canons developed, theological chronologies emerged at different composition stages, though scholars have advanced various theories to identify these stages and their schematizations of time . These chronologies include: </P> <Ul> <Li> A "Progenitor" chronology that placed Abraham's birth at 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 . </Li> <Li> Distinct chronologies can be inferred from the Priestly source (of the Pentateuch), along with priestly authors of later Biblical books, and the Deuteronomistic history, which purports to chronicle the reigns of the kings of Judah and Israel (with some significant historical corroboration, see below and History of ancient Israel and Judah). </Li> <Li> The Nehemiah chronology, devised to show 3,500 years from creation to Nehemiah's mission . Northcote says that this chronology was "probably composed by Levites in Jerusalem not long after Nehemiah's mission, perhaps sometime late in the fifth century BCE (i.e. nearing 400 BCE)." Bousset (1900) apparently sees this schematization, too, but calls it Proto - MT . </Li> <Li> A proto - Masoretic chronology, shaped by jubilees, with an overall literary showing of 3,480 years from creation to the completion of the Second Temple, per B.W. Bousset (1900), and which had the first Temple at 3,000 years . </Li> <Li> The Saros chronology that reflected 3,600 years leading up to the first Temple and 4080 years from creation to the completion of the Second Temple . This scheme served as "the basis for the later LXX chronology and pre-SP Samaritan Pentateuch chronologies". </Li> </Ul> <Li> A "Progenitor" chronology that placed Abraham's birth at 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 . </Li> <Li> Distinct chronologies can be inferred from the Priestly source (of the Pentateuch), along with priestly authors of later Biblical books, and the Deuteronomistic history, which purports to chronicle the reigns of the kings of Judah and Israel (with some significant historical corroboration, see below and History of ancient Israel and Judah). </Li>

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