The gospel of Nicodemus which is actually inspired written pre 70 AD makes it clear 5500 is the original numbers based on the dimensions of the ark in Exodus 25:10 of 2.5 by 1.5 by 1.5 cubits which adds up to 5.5 which the Israelites understood to mean the messiah would come 5500 years from creation. Those ark numbers are the same in all hand written versions of the OT. It is also quoting the life of Adam, and Eve 5500 messianic prophecy which early Christians believes was written by Moses.
Here is the timeline based on Gospel of Nicodemus. It is 70 years short possibly textual variant
Creation 5430 BC
Flood 3218 BC
Tower of Babel 2687 BC
Abraham born or died? 2081 BC (modern date 2000-2200 BC depending on MT or LXX)
Exodus from Egypt 1611 BC (1446 BC is modern date)
Solomons temple build 1100 BC (967 BC is modern date)
Solomons temple destroyed 636 BC (587 BC is the modern date)
Jesus born 4BC -1BC.
Those dates came from this section: it says the dates are in Ezras books but they are not in Ezra/1 Esdras/2 Esdras so it is possibly citing lost works of Ezra. It is citing Life of Adam, and Eve with the 5500 year prophecy, and the extra 70 books outside the normal canon for the worthy only which is in 2 Esdras.
. Now our custom is that every year before our assembly we open this holy Bible and inquire the testimony of God. And we have found in the first book of the Seventy how that Michael the angel spake unto the third son of Adam the first man concerning the five thousand and five hundred years, wherein should come the most beloved Son of God, even Christ: and furthermore we have thought that peradventure this same was the God of Israel which said unto Moses: Make thee an ark of the covenant in length two cubits and a half, and in breadth one cubit and a half, and in height one cubit and a half. For by those five cubits and a half we have understood and known the fashion of the ark of the old covenant, for that in five thousand and a half thousand years Jesus Christ should come in the ark of his body: and we have found that he is the God of Israel, even the Son of God. For after his passion, we the chief of the priests, because we marvelled at the signs which came to pass on his account did open the Bible, and searched out all the generations unto the generation of Joseph, and Mary the mother of Christ, taking her to be the seed of David: and we found that from the day when God made the heaven and the earth and the first man, from that time unto the Flood are 2,212 years: and from the Flood unto the building of the tower 531 years: and from the building of the tower unto Abraham 606 years: and from Abraham unto the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt 470 years: and from the going of the children of Israel out of Egypt unto the building of the temple 511 years: and from the building of the temple unto the destruction of the same temple 464 years: so far found we in the Bible of Esdras: and inquiring from the burning of the temple unto the coming of Christ and his birth we found it to be 636 years, which together were five thousand and five hundred years like as we found it written in the Bible that Michael the archangel declared before unto Seth the third son of Adam, that after five thousand and a half thousand years Christ the Son of God hath (? should) come
Here is the timeline based on Gospel of Nicodemus. It is 70 years short possibly textual variant
Creation 5430 BC
Flood 3218 BC
Tower of Babel 2687 BC
Abraham born or died? 2081 BC (modern date 2000-2200 BC depending on MT or LXX)
Exodus from Egypt 1611 BC (1446 BC is modern date)
Solomons temple build 1100 BC (967 BC is modern date)
Solomons temple destroyed 636 BC (587 BC is the modern date)
Jesus born 4BC -1BC.
Those dates came from this section: it says the dates are in Ezras books but they are not in Ezra/1 Esdras/2 Esdras so it is possibly citing lost works of Ezra. It is citing Life of Adam, and Eve with the 5500 year prophecy, and the extra 70 books outside the normal canon for the worthy only which is in 2 Esdras.
. Now our custom is that every year before our assembly we open this holy Bible and inquire the testimony of God. And we have found in the first book of the Seventy how that Michael the angel spake unto the third son of Adam the first man concerning the five thousand and five hundred years, wherein should come the most beloved Son of God, even Christ: and furthermore we have thought that peradventure this same was the God of Israel which said unto Moses: Make thee an ark of the covenant in length two cubits and a half, and in breadth one cubit and a half, and in height one cubit and a half. For by those five cubits and a half we have understood and known the fashion of the ark of the old covenant, for that in five thousand and a half thousand years Jesus Christ should come in the ark of his body: and we have found that he is the God of Israel, even the Son of God. For after his passion, we the chief of the priests, because we marvelled at the signs which came to pass on his account did open the Bible, and searched out all the generations unto the generation of Joseph, and Mary the mother of Christ, taking her to be the seed of David: and we found that from the day when God made the heaven and the earth and the first man, from that time unto the Flood are 2,212 years: and from the Flood unto the building of the tower 531 years: and from the building of the tower unto Abraham 606 years: and from Abraham unto the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt 470 years: and from the going of the children of Israel out of Egypt unto the building of the temple 511 years: and from the building of the temple unto the destruction of the same temple 464 years: so far found we in the Bible of Esdras: and inquiring from the burning of the temple unto the coming of Christ and his birth we found it to be 636 years, which together were five thousand and five hundred years like as we found it written in the Bible that Michael the archangel declared before unto Seth the third son of Adam, that after five thousand and a half thousand years Christ the Son of God hath (? should) come
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