Gould, Fall in the House of Ussher  all--for no information
exists. Ussher and all other chronologists therefore tried to
link a known event in the period of kings with a datable episode
in another culture--and then to use the timetables of other
peoples until another lateral feint could be made back into the
New Testament. Ussher proceeded by correlating the death of the
Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzar II with the thirty-seventh year of
the exile of Jehoiachin (as stated in 2 Kings 25:27).
(Nebuchadnezzar was, of course, prominent in Jewish history for
conquering Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and deporting its prominent
citizens--the so-called Babylonian captivity.) Ussher could then
calculate through the Chaldean and the subsequent Persian
records, eventually reaching the period of Roman rule and the
birth of Jesus.  3. But where did Ussher get October 23, 4004?
Surely, neither the Bible nor any other source gives a specific
date, even if you can estimate the year. Was this date, at
least, a bow to dogma, even if the