Islam’s Qur’an has numerous references to events in the past histories of the Arab tribes, with no indication of just when those events took place.
The Bhagavad Gita of Hinduism consists of a dialogue between the warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna having to do with Arjuna’s hesitation to participate in a battle, but the reader is left in the dark about the when and where of the battle. Modern interpreters of the Gita are not even sure in which millennium to place the dialogue.
In contrast, immediately after introducing the important topics of Creation and the entrance of sin into the world, the Bible devotes chapter 5 of Genesis to the numbering of years of Adam and his descendants down to Noah. After Noah and the Flood, further numbers are given that have traditionally been used to calculate the years to Abraham and his immediate descendants, and after that to the Exodus. First Kings 6:1 dates the fourth year of King Solomon to the 480th year of the “going-out”, i.e. the Exodus, so that the time from the Exodus to the beginning of construction on Solomon’s temple was 479 years.The precise markers include lengths of reign for the various monarchs, cross-synchronizations between the two Hebrew kingdoms, and year-synchronisms to Assyrian and Babylonian kings whose times of reign can be calculated from extra-biblical sources. " ABR
And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of
the earth,
and hath determined the times before appointed,
and the bounds of
their habitation;
Acts 17:26
