Now there are three relative events which relate to the beginnings of the people of Jared or the Jaredites. These events are the Flood of Noah, the Dividing of the Land in the days of Peleg, and the building and such events which surround the Tower of Babel. Now various Chronologies will place these dates somewhat differenetly and they will be to a degree approximate at best. Now all I can do is the best I can at setting these dates myself, which I will, but first the relavence of the events one to the other ought to be understood.

First the Flood of Noah. Though the Bible states it, there is some debate whether the flood of Noah was world wide or a more locally bounded event. It is one of the values of the record of the Jaredites that is does confirm that the flood of Noah was world wide for the Jaredite record speaks of the waters still receeding from off the earth in America even still at the time of the Jaredites. One set of calculations places the dating of the Flood of Noah at about 2342 BC. This considers the various years of the lives of those since Adam and a beginning date of Adams life on earth at about 4000 BC. For the waters to still be receeding from off the land, it should not be too lengthy of a time since the Flood, though the events of the dividing of the land in the days of Peleg may have also contributed some effects upon that.

Second the Days of Peleg. Now Peleg was born some 100 years after the resting of the Ark back on land again, presumably upon some mountian height of the 'mountains of Ararat'. And to keep the time difference to a minimum, one might presume that Peleg's, whose name means 'divide' or 'division', 'days' came early in his life when the land was divided, that is when the 'Americas', the Islands of the Sea, and Austrailia were cut off from the one land. In the Pacific one might presume a 'sinking of the sea' to have been one event. But one must also consider such forces as the mid-Atlantic ridge whose volcanic activity is still pushing the lands appart to day. And in fact there is an entire 'ring of fire' which surrounds the Pacific with such volcanic activity not to mention the volcanic activities crossing in the midsts of the Pacific such as that which is still forming the Islands of Hawaii even today.

Now science will agree and tell you that the land was once one land. Just how many times the cycle of coming together of the land and dividing again is of some question. But science will certainly tell you that it has been hundreds of thousands of years since the land was once one land. That is according to the current dynamics of the contenental drifts of today. Yet according to the Bible, in the 'Days of Peleg' could have been as little as a hundred years since the flood of Noah and certainly of less duration ago than what science will tell you. One estimation would yield a date of around 2240 BC.

The Time of the Tower of Babel. Again according to the ages of people in the Bible and the fact that such as Nimrod was associated with the Tower of Babel, the time of the dividing of the land in the days of Peleg may well have happened during the same time and era as that in which the Tower of Babel was being built. After the flood, the commandment of the Lord came for the people to spread back out over the face of the land. Rather than doing exactly that, the people began to congregate in central locations, such as the city of Nimrod. Prophets of God would have warned the people to dispurse, but they generally did not. In fact they began to build cities and of course the Tower of Babel which had a impossible objective of reaching to heaven.

It was likely in conjunction with these warnings and even in conjunction with such as the great earth shaking events of the land beginning to divide that such as Jared called upon his brother, Mahonri Moriancumer, to call upon the name of the Lord to please not confound their language, but rather tell them and guide them where to go and they would dispurse upon the land as the Lord had commanded. We don't have the exact prayers of pleading which Mahonri Moriancumer spoke but one can imagine that of such was a matter of their content. And the Lord agreed and covenanted with Mahori Moriancumer that he would not confound their language, that is the families of Jared, Mahori and their specific group of friends who likely adhered to the words and warning of Mahori Moriancumer and Jared that if they would come with them to disperse, there language would not be confounded.

And thus the beginning of the history of the Jaredites may also be placed at the same time and era of the building of the Tower of Babel and of when the land was divided in the days of Peleg. It just depends on how far back you want to consider that the story of Jared and his brother begins in such relationship to the days of the Tower of Babel and the dividing of the land. Certainly the land was divided and still in relative motion commotion for the nature of the barges the Lord had the Jaredites build and the roughness of the seas envolved would so suggest that the parting of the lands, though having been effectived, were still in some degree dynamically still coming to a settling of their movements. About 2240 BC would do for that time as well.

Now other formers of a timeline for the Jaredites have speculated earlier, that is as early as say 3100 BC, but then one would also have to push back the beginning time of Adam as well. In that particular, all things are of such a 'relative' nature. And the best that one can do with those earliest of times is to approximate. The datings of the middle-America civilizations is one such matter used by some. But that brings one back to the theories of science and such things as the 'carbon dating' of things and the like in putting such matters together. Myself, I prefer to stay more Biblical oriented as I do suppose that such scientific datings and their theories are a bit off. In the case of carbon dating I've even noted that there seems to be an 'exponential' facter which the fomula they use has not taken into consideration, that is under such and such circumstance the depletion of the carbon isotop they are measure begins to decay exponentually faster than they have formulated it to do so. Being covered by sea or salt water for example seems to have such and effect rather than the 'scientific lab' environment of the fomulas used seem to allow for, etc.

So with this background and beginning, I will preceed to further consider the chronology and timeline of the Jaredites. In this case with the 'Jaredite Chronology' or timeline, I will again uses the parallel columns. This time the first column for the approximate dates and times as well as the setting in the corresponding geneology from father to son which must fit within the over all time frame. I will not give as 'detailed' a timeline as some, rather I will in the second column comment upon those significant events of Jaredite history and how such might fit with other scriptural history as well.

Now it is not so important here as to the exact date of Lib and Solomon matching. In relationship to each other what is important to understand is that the trade city by the narrow neck of land be built and in place for the ships of Tarshish to come and trade with in the Americas. As to just when and how the Phonesians first began trading with the America, whether before or at the time of Solomon, is also not necessary to pin point. What is important here is to see that the likelihood and possiblity does exist between the time table of the Bible and the Jaredites does certainly allow for such trade to be on going, that the Phonesians knew well in advance of the time of king Zedekiah and his son Mulek of the place and existence of this trade location in America. And this lays the foundational concept as to just how and why one man wandering the Americas could so easily be found by Mulekites at the very site of their 'first landing' in America.

At this point I would like to address that there are other relatively authoritative chronologies of the Jaredites proposed. Perhaps one of the more accepted of the day is that proposed by such as John L. Sorenson whose academic association with the now Maxwell Institue of BYU now posses at least a neutrallity upon the matter rather than when the group was previously known as 'F.A.R.M.S.', and would tout there proposed theoretical suggestions almost as 'gospel' and critically oppose other concept as being highly unacceptable. The article which contains John L. Sorenson's 'suggested' chronology is entitled "The Years of the Jaredties". Sorenson has gained popularity due to his academic standing as an anthropologest and his ability to relate 'such and such' of the Book of Mormon to such scientifically proposed and accepted theoretical positions. While this gives Sorenson high acceptence at such as BYU, it actually is one of the reasons for which I am unable to not accept his proposed datings for his 'must' correlate with those set out by 'science', whereas mine are Biblically related and based to an extent independent of any such reliance upon the theories of science.

I look in my Bible Dictionary Chronology table and it begins at 4,000 BC as the time of the fall of Adam being cast out upon the lone and dreary world. And thus as I've stated, the time table I use starts at that point and works through the Biblical ages of the men of the Bible. Now John Sorenson does not use that beginning which is seen in the fact that his time of the departure of the party of Jared from the 'great tower' is set at 3,100 BC. Now Methuselah himself is recorded in the Bible to have lived 969 years and that alone from 4,000 clarifies that John Sorenson is not using the common Biblical time table as had in the LDS Bible Dictionary. With that I'll leave it to Sorenson to further explain his own Chronology. For my purposes I have well enough justified mine for my purposes.