I used the timeline Ray put together in a Bible study (
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,7500.0.html ) and transcript of How We Got The Bible (
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,5815.0.html ) and added a lot of dates to get a guideline of major Biblical/historical events, to help get a prespective of things. Thought I would share this, it might be helpful to someone else. The dates are from internet search of many sources, so are not certain, but tried to find more than one source for them.
TIMELINE FOR MAJOR EVENTS IN SCRIPTURE
Adam and Eve 4000 B.C.
Cain murders Abel, 3900- B.C.
Wheel is invented in 3700 B.C.
Methuselah is born in 3250-B.C.
Adam dies age 930, 3000+B.C.
Noah is born in 2885 B.C.
Building Great Pyramids of Giza, largest in the world, 2575-2150 B.C
Noah's flood [Methuselah dies at 969], 2285 B.C
Babel, languages confused, 2150+ B.C.
Abraham born in 1995 B.C.
Noah dies age 950 [500 pre&post flood], 1935 B.C.
Sodom & cities burned around 1900- B.C.
Isaac [Abraham, at 100 yrs old, has first son] born in 1895 B.C.
Jacob & Esau born in 1835 B.C.
Jacob & Leah have 6 sons in 7 yrs - first children of Israel 1777 B.C.
Joseph viceroy of Egypt [famine ends], 1700 B.C.
Israel prospers in Egypt for 150 yrs, 1600 B.C.
Israel slaves of Egypt for 175 yrs, 1450 B.C.
King 'Tut' reigns 9 yrs, 1350 B.C.
Moses leads exodus [receives Ten Commandments], 1275 B.C.
Joshua led the Israelites into the land of Canaan. Israel invades Canaan and walls of Jericho fall, 1234 B.C.
Philistines in Canaan, 1190 B.C.
Samson is born in 1090 B.C.
Samuel leads Israel for 40 yrs, 1050- B.C.
David born at Bethlehem in 1034 B.C
Saul first king of Israel in 1025 B.C.
King David attacks and captures Jerusalem, it becomes City of David and capital of the United Kingdom of Israel, he rules for 40 yrs., 1000+ B.C.
David dies at age 69, 965 B.C.
Solomon rules 40 yrs, begins building first Temple, but turns all Israel to idolatry, 935 B.C.
Elijah & Baal priests, 860+ B.C.
Greek writer Homer, 800 B.C.
Jonah (Ben Amittai), sent to prophesy the destruction of Assyria, flees on a ship, was swallowed by a fish for 3 days and 3 nights, 777 B.C.
Israel falls to Assyria, 712 B.C.
Era of Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremiah 600 B.C.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 600 B.C.
Jerusalem was conquered in 605 BC, 597BC and 587 BC. The first destruction of the Temple occurred in 587 by Nebuchadnezzar. In the subsequent exile of the Jews to Babylon, some of the Jews fell under the influence of Persian beliefs of dualism and Zoroastrianism and hades/hell.
The Buddha, a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism. A majority of twentieth-century historians date his lifetime from 563-483 B.C.
Confucius a Chinese thinker and social philosopher, 551-479 B.C.
When Cyrus conquered Babylon, he allowed Israel and Judah to return to their land in 539 B.C
Zechariah calls for new Temple in 520 B.C and the Jewish Temple was rebuilt seventy years after it was destroyed, starting the second Temple period, in 515 B.C.
Completion of original Hebrew manuscripts which make up The 39 Books of the Old Testament, 500 B.C.
Esther, Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus (traditionally identified with Xerxes I). The history of Esther begins in 462 B.C.
Worship restored by Malachi, Ezra & Nehemiah in 450 B.C.
Nehemiah is the appointed governor of Judah, and was given orders from the King of Persia to rebuild Jerusalem and its walls in 444 B.C.
Socrates a classical Greek Athenian philosopher died in 399 B.C.
Books of OT are called Scripture by 350 B.C.
Plato of Athens, died in 347 B.C.
Alexander the Great conquers Palestine peacefully (Egypt rules Palestine until 200 B.C., many Jews in Egypt). The Second Temple in Jerusalem was looted and its religious services stopped, Judaism was effectively outlawed, 333 B.C.
Completion of the Septuagint Greek Manuscripts which contain the 39 Old Testament books and 14 Apocrypha books, 200 B.C.
Antiochus III of Syria conquers Palestine, 200 B.C.
Antiochus IV defukes Temple - burns the Law and dedicates it to Zeus, 167 B.C.
Antiochus V rescinds decree against Jewish Law and Temple is rededicated, Hanukkah, 164 B.C.
Roman Empire rules Judea, 64 B.C.
Julius Caesar is appointed dictator of the Roman Republic, 45 B.C.
Herod the Great was appointed king of the Jews by the Roman senate in 40-39 B.C.
Herod expands the Temple Mount and rebuilds the Temple including the construction of the Western Wall. It became known as Herod's Temple in 19 B.C.
John the Baptist is born, 4 B.C.
Jesus is presented at the Temple, 40 days after his birth in Bethlehem, 3-4 B.C.
The 12 year old Jesus travels to Jerusalem on Passover, 8 C.E.
Three year Ministry of Jesus estimated begins 27-29 C.E and ends 30-36 C.E.
John the Baptist is imprisoned by Herod for denouncing his marriage, later beheaded, 26-31 C.E.
Judas Iscariot, died by his own actions in 31 C.E.
Crucifixion - Resurrection - and Ascension of Jesus Christ, 31 C.E.
Pentecost, falls on the tenth day after Ascension, 31 C.E.
Apostolic Age of the Church 31-100 A.D.
Stephen was stoned to death by an infuriated mob, approved by Saul of Tarsus in Jerusalem in 30/34 C.E.
Conversion of Saul to Paul the Apostle, it is normally dated by researchers to 32 (most likely) - 36 C.E.
Apostle James the greater, son of Zebedee, the first apostle to be martyred was put to death by sword shortly before the day of the Passover, in the year 44 C.E.
The Apostles held the Council of Jerusalem, the first Christian council, 50 C.E.
Apostle Philp, originally a disciple of John the Baptist was hanged from a tall pillar at Hierapolis, Phrygia. Some have it as late as 80 C.E., others have it at 54 C.E.
Apostle Bartholomew, surname was Mathanael, was crucified 59 C.E.
Apostle Matthew (or Levi) was killed with a havel that had a blade and spike in Nadabah in 60 C.E.
Apostle Barnabus, certain Jews coming to Syria and Salamis fell upon him as he was disputing in the synagogue, dragged him out and stoned him to death in 61 C.E.
Apostle James the Just (lesser), son of Alphaeus, was martyred at Jerusalem by being thrown from a pinnacle of the Temple, then stoned and beaten while praying for his attackers, some have it as early as 50 C.E., others 62 C.E.
Simon surnamed Peter, brother of Andrew, was crucified (head downward) in 64/68 C.E.
Apostle Paul as a Roman citizen was exempt from crucifixion, thus was tortured and then beheaded by the Emperor Nero at Rome in 64 C.E.
Apostle Mark, pagans of the city of Alexandria placed a rope around his neck and dragged him through the streets until he was dead, in 68 C.E.
Apostle Andrew, brother of Peter, according to traditional accounts, he was crucified in Greece on a decussate (i.e., X-shaped) cross. Some have it as early as the year 60 C.E. others 70 C.E.
Fall of Jerusalem; (from 6 CE, Judea came under direct Roman rule as the province of Iudaea, eventually, the Jews rose against Roman rule in 66 CE in a revolt that was unsuccessful). Titus' siege succeeds and Jerusalem was destroyed and sacked and much of the population was killed or enslaved, March – September 70 A.D.
Apostle Thomas, Aramaic name was Didymus was pierced through with spears by four soldiers in India. Some have it as early as 40 C.E., other as late as 72 C.E.
Apostle Jude, brother of James, was crucified in Edessa in 72 C.E.
Apostle Thaddeous, shot to death by arrows in 72 C.E.
Apostle Luke was 84 years old when idolaters tortured and hanged him from an olive tree in the town of Thebes, in Beothia of Greece, 74 C.E.
Matthias was chosen an apostle to replace Judas Iscariot. Traditional accounts say he was stoned to death and beheaded at Colchis in 80 C.E.
Judas (Jude Thaddeus), the brother of James the Lesser. According to traditional accounts he was beaten to death, then beheaded in Persia, sometime before the end of the first century.
Apostle John (the Beloved), son of Zebedee and brother of James the Greater was banished to the island of Patmos in the Aegean Sea and subsequently freed and died a natural death at Ephesus in 101 C.E.
Simon the Zealot, according to legend was sawn in half at Suanir, Persia in 107 C.E.
Possibly the oldest translation from the Greek known is the Peshito/Peshitta (none of the originals exist, but there is a historian's quote from it, the earliest copy that they do have is from around the 5th century). It was translated from Greek into Syriac as early as 160-180 A.D.
Roman Persecution of the Church 100-313 A.D.
Age of Constantine 313-600 A.D.
In the year 313 Constantine ordered that a large number of Bibles be written to replace the ones that were destroyed when the Jews and Christians were being persecuted by Rome. Constantine ruled over a pagan Rome and was the head of the most popular pagan religion until being baptized a Christian on his deathbed. Constantine appointed the first bishops and Christianity became Romanized and many of the pagan traditions and beliefs became incorporated into the Christian teachings.
Athenasius, the Bishop of Alexandria, identifies the 27 books of the New Testament (passed on for 200 years from Peter and John, which are today recognized as the canon of Scripture), in 315 A.D.
The First Council of Nicaea (first worldwide Christian council) in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) and convoked by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The ban on Jews entering the city remains in force, accept once a year to pray at the Western Wall on Tisha B'Av. This is the date on which the city is generally taken to have been renamed Jerusalem, 325 A.D.
Codex Sinaiticus Greek Manuscript, the first Greek manuscript of the complete New Testament, also includes the translation of the Old Testament known as the Septuagint, 350 A.D.
Jerome's Latin Vulgate Manuscripts produced, which contain all 80 books (39 Old Test + 14 Apocrypha + 27 New Test), 382 A.D.
Hell remained an open question and not an official teaching until the age of Justinian and the Council of Constantinople where universal salvation was denounced and eternal damnation was embraced and made church dogma, 553 A.D.
Dark Ages 600-1517 A.D.
The Muslims built the Dome of the Rock on the location of the Jewish Temple 687 A.D.
Great Schism - the Patriarch of Jerusalem joined the Eastern Orthodox Church, under the jurisdiction of Constantinople. All Christians in the Holy Land came under the jurisdiction of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, setting in place a key cause of the Crusades, 1054 A.D.
At the Council of Clermont Pope Urban II calls for the First Crusade, 1095 A.D.
Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia), by Dante Alighieri; Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso, an epic poem written between 1308 and his death in 1321 A.D.
For exactly one thousand years, Latin was virtually the only available translation until Wycliffe‘s English translation (Complete Bible; All 80 Books, translation out of the Vulgate) in 1382 A.D.
Fall of Constantinople, overrun by Ottoman Empire, 1453 A.D.
Gutenberg Bible, first printed Bible, by Johann Gutenberg in 1455 A.D.
Michelangelo frescoes the Sistine Chapel's vaulted ceiling in 1508-1512 A.D.
William Tyndale's New Testament; the first New Testament in the English language, draw directly from Hebrew and Greek texts, and the first to take advantage of the new medium of print which allowed for its wide distribution in 1526 A.D.
Lutheranism is officially adopted by reformation in 1528. First doctrinal statement of the Lutheran Church in 1530 A.D.
Myles Coverdale's Bible; the first complete Bible printed in the English language (Tyndale’s protégés finished Tyndale’s Old Testament (after Tyndale was put to death) and producted the complete 80 books: O.T. & N.T. & Apocrypha), 1535 A.D.
The Geneva Bible Printed; The first English language Bible to add numbered verses to each chapter (80 Books)1560 A.D., became the Bishop‘s Bible of 1568 A.D.
Jamestown, Virginia founded in 1607 A.D.
Baptist Church founded by John Smyth, 1609 A.D.
The King James Bible printed; originally with all 80 Books. The Apocrypha was officially removed in 1885 leaving only 66 books, 1611 A.D.
George Fox founds the Quaker movement in 1648 A.D.
Methodist movement, led by John Wesley and his hymn-writing brother Charles, begins in 1738 A.D.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormonism) founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in April 6, 1830 A.D.
Seventh-day Adventist Church officially formed in 1863 A.D.
The Pentecostal, the earliest date given for the beginning of this movement is January 1, 1901
Jehovah's Witnesses founded in 1931 A.D.
Herbert W. Armstrong founded Radio Church of God, 1934 A.D.
Bible-truths.com, L. Ray Smith and Dennis Vogel started this website, 2000 A.D.
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