Missing years may refer to:
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Missing years (Jewish calendar)
The missing years in the Hebrew calendar refer to a chronological discrepancy between the rabbinic dating for the destruction of the First Temple in 422 BCE (3338 Anno Mundi) and the academic dating of it in 587 BCE. In a larger sense, it also r ...
, a chronological discrepancy between Rabbinic chronologists for the destruction of the First Temple in 423 BCE (3338 AM) or 403 BCE (3358 AM) and the modern secular dating for it in 2024
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Unknown years of Jesus
The unknown years of Jesus (also called his silent years, lost years, or missing years) generally refers to the period of Jesus's life between his childhood and the beginning of his ministry, a period not described in the New Testament.
The "l ...
, also known as the missing years, an 18-year period of his life that is not documented in the Bible
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Intertestamental period
The intertestamental period (Protestant) or deuterocanonical period (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) is the period of time between the events of the protocanonical books and the New Testament. It is considered to cover roughly 400 years, spanning f ...
, the period between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible
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''Missing Years'' (album), a 2007 album by Little Texas or its title track
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''The Missing Years'' (album), a 1991 album by John Prine
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The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years'', a 1996 miniseries
* ''I Know My First Name Is Steven (The Missing Years)'', a 1989 miniseries about
Steven Stayner
Steven Gregory Stayner (April 18, 1965September 16, 1989) was an American kidnapping victim and the younger brother of serial killer Cary Stayner. On December 4, 1972, seven-year-old Stayner was abducted in Merced, California, by child molester K ...
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Years of potential life lost
Years of potential life lost (YPLL) or potential years of life lost (PYLL) is an estimate of the average years a person would have lived if they had not died prematurely. It is, therefore, a measure of premature mortality. As an alternative to de ...
, a measure of how long a person could have lived if not for a premature death
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Dark Ages (historiography)
The ''Dark Ages'' is a term for the Early Middle Ages (–10th centuries), or occasionally the entire Middle Ages (–15th centuries), in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, which characterises it as marked by economic, int ...
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