While it is the Masoretic text of the poem which uses the word Agag, the Septuagint, other Greek versions, and the Samaritan Pentateuch, all have Gog ( i. e., king Gyges of Lydia, 716 BC to 678 BC ), implying a very late date for the poem.

The script of the Samaritan Pentateuch, its close connections at many points with the Septuagint, and its even closer agreements with our present Hebrew text, all suggest a date about 122 B. C.

The use of tabernacle terminology in Hebrews has been used to date the epistle before the destruction of the temple, the idea being that knowing about the destruction of both Jerusalem and the temple would have influenced the development of the author's overall argument to include such evidence.

Opinions vary as to the prophet's exact date, but nearly all scholars agree that Malachi prophesied during the Persian period, and after the reconstruction and dedication of the second temple in 516 BC ( compare Malachi 1: 10 ; Malachi 3: 1, Malachi 3: 10 ).

The megalithic temple complexes of Ġgantija on the Mediterranean island of Gozo ( in the Maltese archipelago ) and of Mnajdra ( Malta ) are notable for their gigantic Neolithic structures, the oldest of which date back to c. 3600 BC.

* Borobudur, a Buddhist temple complex, is begun ( approximate date ).

* The Athenians begin the building of a temple to Athena Parthenos ( approximate date ).

Partly his reasons were sound scholarly ones — the Masoretic text claims an unbroken history of careful transcription stretching back centuries — but his choice was confirmed for him, because it placed Creation exactly four thousand years before 4 BC, the generally accepted date for the birth of Christ ; moreover, he calculated, Solomon's temple was completed in the year 3000 from creation, so that there were exactly 1000 years from the temple to Christ, who was the fulfilment of the Temple .< ref > James Barr, Biblical Chronology: Legend Or Science?

The oldest living plant of known planting date is a Ficus religiosa tree known as the Sri Maha Bodhi planted in the temple at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka by King Tissa in 288 BC.

Josephus himself, however, dates this event in the days of Alexander the Great, and though there is a notorious confusion in Josephus at this point, he may be right about the Gerizim temple dating from 332, and that may have been the date of the copying of their Pentateuch.

Nonetheless, they kept accurate calendars and if they recorded the date of the temple reconstructions it would be a fairly simple matter to plot the rough precession rate.

The temple of Zeus Salaminios whose cult was established, according to tradition, by Teucer himself, must have existed since the foundation of the city ; the extant remains date to the late Hellenistic period.

Locrus was also a Parian statuary, of unknown date whose statue of Athena in the temple of Ares, at Athens, is mentioned by Pausanias.

The island was colonized at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines ; they founded a temple to the god Melqart, whom the Greeks identified as " Tyrian Heracles ", and whose cult was merged with Heracles in the course of the island's Hellenization.

Bonus Eventus had a temple of unknown date in the Campus Martius.

The relationship between the two gods is underlined by the fact that the date chosen for the dedication of the rebuilt temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium by emperor Tiberius is the day of the Portunalia, August 17.

Ovid gives the dedication day as June 1, but it appears as December 23 in the Fasti Antiates Maiores ; this latter date may mark a renovation, or there may have been more than one temple to the Tempestates.

The most ancient buildings currently visible are from the 3rd century BC, notably the Castrum ( military camp ); of a slightly later date is the Capitolium ( temple of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva ).

From this period date many developments of the Saqqara Serapeum, including the building of the Chamber of Poets, as well as the dromos adorning the temple, and many elements of Greek-inspired architecture.

A larger temple dedicated to Hathor, indeed one of the foremost shrines of the goddess in the country, is thought to have existed elsewhere in the city, but to date has not been discovered.

An inscription known as the Famine Stela and claiming to date to the reign of Djoser, but probably created during the Ptolemaic Dynasty, relates how Djoser rebuilt the temple of Khnum on the island of Elephantine at the First Cataract, thus ending a seven-year famine in Egypt.

The date was deduced from a hoard of coins discovered beneath a mosaic floor in the temple.

The flamen of Portunus performed the ritual greasing of the spear of the god Quirinus on August 17, day of the Portunalia, on the same date that the temple of Janus in the Forum Holitorium had been consecrated ( by consul Caius Duilius in 260 BC ).

His festival day named Portunalia fell on August 17, and he was venerated on that day in a temple ad pontem Aemilium and ad pontem Sublicium that had been dedicated on that date.

To date, no other temple in the world has achieved such wide spread recognition.

* 1206 BC: Approximate starting date of Bronze age collapse, a period of migration, unrest and destruction in the eastern Mediterranean and Near East.

* 1206 BC: Approximate starting date of Bronze age collapse, a period of migration, unrest and destruction in the eastern Mediterranean and Near East.

Rabbinic chronologists place the date of the destruction of the First Temple-considered the onset of the captivity-to be 3338 HC i. e. 423 BCE or 3358 HC i. e. 403 BCE while modern secular dating for it is 587 – 538 BCE.

The company had claimed that the destruction of the firm's email servers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center resulted in the loss of all email before that date.

In 654 BC or 652 BC – the exact date is unclear – the Cimmerians attacked the kingdom of Lydia, killing the Lydian king Gyges and causing great destruction to the Lydian capital of Sardis.

The 14th day of the moon, Nisan 14, was the date that Paschal lambs were slain ( in late afternoon ) until the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 prevented their continuing sacrifice, as well as the day when all leavened bread crumbs had to be collected and burned, hence Nisan 14 was the day of preparation for Passover ().

Because of the extensive destruction and rebuilding, most of the buildings on O ' Connell Street date from the 1910s and 1920s.

But when and by whom it was destroyed is uncertain ; it was almost certainly subjugated at a later date than that given by Livy, and may have been destroyed by the Latins and not by the Romans, who might have regarded as impious the destruction of their traditional mother-country.

Therefore, the date of the destruction of Ugarit is important for the dating of the LH IIIC phase in mainland Greece.

Since an Egyptian sword bearing the name of pharaoh Merneptah was found in the destruction levels, 1190 BC was taken as the date for the beginning of the LH IIIC.

Excavation has revealed extensive evidence of destruction by fire in the form of a layer of red ash beneath the city at this date.

A third epigram on the destruction of Beirut ( 9. 27 ), offers no certain date.

The fast commemorates the destruction of both the First Temple and Second Temple in Jerusalem, which occurred about 655 years apart, but on the same Hebrew calendar date.

To date, there is preliminary evidence that it may have some cholesterol-lowering, anti-inflammatory, wound-healing, and antibiotic effects, though the last three of these effects are unlikely to be realized if ingested ( due to the destruction of the substances involved through digestion, or neutralization by changes in pH ).

In 1788, Lambert returned to Leicester, to serve as his father's assistant at the gaol ( some sources date Lambert's return to Leicester to 1791, following the destruction of the building housing Messrs Taylor & Co in the Priestley Riots of ).

Currently, the stratigraphic evidence at Gezer dates the earthquake at 760 BC, plus or minus 25 years, while Yadin and Finkelstein date the earthquake level at Hazor to 760 BC based on stratigraphic analysis of the destruction debris.

The Early Bronze city was destroyed by fire, but no date has been determined for this destruction.

The opening date was pushed back to 29 April, the tenth anniversary of its destruction.

Historically, the fast commemorates the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia — an event that began on that date and ultimately culminated in the destruction of Solomon's Temple ( the First Temple ) and the conquest of the Kingdom of Judah ( nowadays: southern Israel ).

The date at which the first mansio was destroyed is uncertain, it was probably near the beginning of the 2nd century, as the destruction layers contained Flavian-Trajanic samian-ware, part of a mortarium dating from 70 – 100 CE and part of a glass bowl which has been dated to the 2nd century.

This date marked the second anniversary of the Resistance's destruction of the Gorgopotamos railway bridge.

The foundation of Himera is placed subsequent to that of Mylae ( as, from their relative positions, might naturally have been expected ) both by Strabo and Scymnus Chius: its date is not mentioned by Thucydides, but Diodorus tells us that it had existed 240 years at the time of its destruction by the Carthaginians, which would fix its first settlement in 648 BCE.