Bible History Timeline

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Here is our own timeline of the history of the entire Bible. It is listed in chronological order.

 

BIBLE HISTORY TIMELINE

Part 1. The Early World – from the Creation to 2000 BC

Part 2. The Patriarchs – from 2000 BC to 1700 BC

Part 3. Egypt and the Exodus – from 1700 BC to 1280 BC

Part 4. Desert Wanderings – from 1280 BC to 1240 BC

Part 5. Conquest & Judges – from 1240 BC to 1050 BC

Part 6. The Royal Kingdom – from 1050 BC to 930 BC

Part 7. The Divided Kingdom – from 930 BC to 722 BC

Part 8. The Exile – from 722 BC to 538 BC

Part 9. Return from Exile, from 538 BC to 167 BC

Part 10. The Intertestamental Era, from 400 BC to 6 BC

Part 11. The Messiah, from circa 4 BC to 30 or 33 AD

Part 12. The Christian Movement, from 30 or 33 AD to circa 95 AD

 

NOTES

 

Note 1. Bible order vs. Chronological order

The Bible is not presented chronologically. Rather, it is presented in a specific book order.

But when you read the Bible chronologically, you will not always be reading in book order. Instead, you will be jumping around. A lot.

 

Note 2. Deciding the sequence of passages

How do we decide the sequential ordering of the passages?

  1. By when it was written?
  2. By when it was spoken / took place?
  3. By when it is predicted to take place?

In some cases, all three coincide. But in many cases, they are separated by years or decades or more.

In this page, our goal is to list the passages by when they were spoken / took place.

That is often quite difficult to ascertain. So the following is our best guess.

As we gain new insights, we change these pages accordingly.

 

 

RESOURCES

 

SCHEDULE

Here is our schedule for the coming weeks and months.

INTRODUCTION

Join us in reading from Genesis to Revelation, about a chapter a day, chronologically.

BIBLE HISTORY TIMELINE

Here is our own timeline of the history of the entire Bible. It is listed in chronological order.

THE DEUTEROCANONICALS

The Protestant Bible has 66 books. The Catholic Bible has 73, and the Orthodox have 78. How do those “extra” books fit into the chronological timeline of the Bible?

BIBLE READING HISTORY

This is our recent history for the Bible Reading Project.

KNOWLEDGE BASE

Here are all our articles about the Bible Reading Project.

 

 

BIBLE HISTORY TIMELINE

SECTIONS:

  1. The Early World – from the Creation to 2000 BC
  2. The Patriarchs – from 2000 BC to 1700 BC
  3. Egypt and the Exodus – from 1700 BC to 1280 BC
  4. Desert Wanderings – from 1280 BC to 1240 BC
  5. Conquest & Judges – from 1240 BC to 1050 BC
  6. The Royal Kingdom – from 1050 BC to 930 BC
  7. The Divided Kingdom – from 930 BC to 722 BC
  8. The Exile – from 722 BC to 538 BC
  9. Return from Exile, from 538 BC to 167 BC
  10. The Intertestamental Era, from 400 BC to 6 BC
  11. The Messiah, from circa 4 BC to 30 or 33 AD
  12. The Christian Movement, from 30 or 33 AD to circa 95 AD

RESOURCES: Bible order vs. Chronological order, Deciding the sequence of passages

EXTERNAL REFERENCES: BibleHub, Biblical literalist chronology at Wikipedia, One Year Bible Online

Unless otherwise noted, all Bible quotations on this page are from the World English Bible and the World Messianic Edition. These translations have no copyright restrictions. They are in the Public Domain.