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Jordan, Marshall (2025) Biblical Radiocarbon Dating the Minoan Eruption to the Exodus. Answers Research Journal, 18: 17. pp. 277-289. ISSN 1937-9056
Dating of the Minoan Eruption of the Middle Bronze Age has been an elusive goal of archaeologists since at least the 1970s. An absolute date would make this eruption a timestamp for ancient sites throughout the Mediterranean world since tephra from the eruption is a common finding in these ruins. But with no historical record of this greatest volcanic eruption in human history, investigators are left with the indirect dating methods of pottery seriation, stratigraphy, and radiocarbon, which have so far been unable to resolve a 100 to 150 year discrepancy between the secular radiocarbon date and the archaeological date for the eruption. Biblical radiocarbon dating offers the prospect of resolving this discrepancy by overturning secular radiocarbon dating with its uniformitarian assumptions and affirming the younger archaeological date for the eruption. Biblical recalibration of the radiocarbon ages of ancient carbons associated with the Minoan Eruption supports the idea that this major volcanic event occurred at the time of the Exodus in 1446 BC. Therefore, the Minoan Eruption may have contributed to the plagues that fell from God on Egypt during the Exodus.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science (General) > QE Geology > QE508 Geochronometry > QE508.1 Radiometric Dating. Carbon Dating B Philosophy (General) > BB The Bible > BB4 Biblical Chronology C Sciences of History (General) > CC Archaeology |
| Depositing User: | Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2026 23:41 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2026 23:41 |
| URI: | https://crsq.creationresearch.org/id/eprint/1532 |