Timeline is in centuries. Red are *ancestors of Christ, and  green is covenants
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Genesis                                      Moses(???)                                                                   
        Creation of World|"Big                  
        --Bang"                                   
        Creation *Adam,Eve*|"Mitochondrial Eve" 
        --and "Y-chromosome Adam" (70000 B.C.???) 
        Fall. Covenant - Promise of Savior      
        --(Gen3:15) to woman's (Mary) seed *Seth*|
        *Noah* and Covenant (no more            
        --floods)                                 
        *Shem*                                  
        Babel                                   
          Abram's Call, name change to            
          --*Abraham,Sara*, Covenant of land, numero
          Melchizedek Blesses                     
          --*Abraham,Sara*                          
          *Abraham's* Call                        
          --renewed                                 
          Sodom and                               
          --Gomorrah                                
             Ishmael and                             
             --*Isaac,Rebecca*                         
             Binding of Isaac and Covenant (land,    
             --kingdom, worldwide blessing)            
                  Esau [Edom] *Jacob*                     
                  --[Israel]                                
                  *Jacob,Rachel* steals blessing,         
                  --wrestles with God                       
                    Joseph sold into slavery|Code of        
                    --Hammurabi 1760 B.C.                     
                    Jacob [Israel] moves to Egypt. Sons are 
                    --Reuben, Simeon, Levi,*Juda*, Zebulon, Is
                       *Perez* by Tamar (Juda's                
                       --daugher-in-law)                         
Exodus                                       Moses(???)                                                                   
                            Slavary in Egypt. 400 years till        
                            --1300                                    
                               *Hezron*                                
                                 *Ram*|First Cities in                   
                                 --China                                   
                                   *Amminadab*|First written               
                                   --Greek                                   
                                      *Nashon*                                
                                           |Egyption building projects under Seth  
                                           --I and Rameses II                        
                                             Moses, burning bush, ten plagues,       
                                             --Exodus passover, Red Sea, Manna, Covenan
Leviticus                                    Moses(???)                                                                   
                                             Description of Levitical Priesthood and 
                                             --dietary laws, Tabernacle                
Numbers                                      Moses(???)                                                                   
                                             Census (twice), Wandering in wilderness 
                                             --for 40yrs, Balaam, water from the rock  
Deuteronomy                                  Moses(???)                                                                   
                                             Desert wanderings, second law, Jewish   
                                             --worship defined, Death of Moses         
                                             bronze serpent, water from rock, 12     
                                             --spies                                   
Joshua                                          Joshua + later additions                                                  
                                                cross Jordan, Jericho, Southern,        
                                                --Northern campaign, Tribal allotment     
Judges                                                    unknown                                                         
                                              Israel breaks God's law and is          
                                              --subjugated over and over and Judges save
                                              Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah,        
                                              --Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elo
                                              *Salmon,Rahab* *Boaz,Ruth*              
                                              --*Obed*                                  
                                                       Samuel, son of Elkanah and Hannah is    
                                                       --last judge and a priest                 
Ruth                                                      unknown                                                         
                                              *Boaz,Ruth*Ruth was a Moabite, widowed  
                                              --daughter-in-law of Naomi, later married 
1 Samuel                                                                      unknown                                     
                                                       Eli, Israel asks for a king. Samuel is  
                                                       --priest, Saul is king                    
                                                         *David* son of *Jesse* kills            
                                                         --Goliath                                 
2 Samuel                                                                      unknown                                     
                                                         David is king first of Judah and then   
                                                         --of all Israel, Covenant (Messiah from li
1 Kings                                                                       unknown                                     
                                                           *Solomon* is king, Temple is built,     
                                                           --Solomon has many wives and builds temple
                                                               Elijah|Taken to heaven on chariot of    
                                                               --fire                                    
                                                                Elisha                                  
2 Kings                                                                       unknown                                     
                                                                 Kingdoms divide, Juda in South, 10      
                                                                 --tribes in North.|First Oympics 776 Found
                                                                       Fall of Samaria and Assyrian exile of   
                                                                       --northern tribes                         
                                                                              Babylon begins conquest of              
                                                                              --Judah                                   
                                                                              First deportation to Babylon and        
                                                                              --Ezekiel prophesizes destruction of Jerus
                                                                              Second deportation and Jerusalem is     
                                                                              --destroyed                               
                                                                                 |Persia conquers                        
                                                                                 --Babylon                                 
                                                                                 Cyrus the Great of Persia releases      
                                                                                 --Jewish exiles                           
1 Chronicles                                                                       unknown                                  
        Biblical history from Adam to           
        --David                                   
2 Chronicles                                                                       unknown                                  
                                                           from Solomon to exile and return 2      
                                                           --Kings                                   
Ezra                                                                                    Ezra (ch 7-10?), compilation of records  
                                                                                 First wave of exiles                    
                                                                                 --return                                  
                                                                                  Construction of Second                  
                                                                                  --Temple                                  
                                                                                     Ezra arrive in Jerusalem, 2nd wave or   
                                                                                     --exiles return|Artaxerxes I              
Nehemiah                                                                                unknown                                  
                                                                                     Rebuild Walls of Jerusalem, restore     
                                                                                     --faith with Ezra                         
Tobit                                                                                       unknown                                  
                                                                        During Assyrian exile?, Tobias, Tobit,  
                                                                        --Sarah, Archangel Raphael                
Judith                                                                                              unknown                                  
                                                                               Exiles have                             
                                                                               --returned                                
Esther                                                                                       Mordicai??                               
                                                                                   |Ahasuerus/Xerxes king of Persia takes  
                                                                                   --place in Susa                           
Job                                                                      unknown                                          
                  Patriarchal period, before              
                  --Moses                                   
Psalms                                               David(73), Solomon(2), Asaph(12), Sons o                             
Proverbs                                                                      Solomon                                     
                                                                                                                                                   
Ecclesiastes                                                                                 unknown                                  
Song of Songs                                                                        Solomon??? perhaps edited in post-exilic 
Wisdom                                                                                                 unknown                                  
Sirach (Eccles                                                                                     unknown                                  
Isaiah                                                                   Isaiah (first part 1-39??)                       
                                                                      Oracles of confrontation - woe to       
                                                                      --Israel, proto-Isaiah 1-39|King Tiglath-P
                                                                              Oracles of consolation - exilic in      
                                                                              --Babylon, deutero-Isaiah 40-55           
                                                                                   more consolation - post-exilic after    
                                                                                   --Babylon, tertio-Isaiah 56-66            
Jeremiah                                                                        Jeremiah, his secretary Baruch            
                                                                            Assyria is supreme in Near              
                                                                            --East                                    
                                                                             |Babylon conquers                       
                                                                             --Assyria                                 
                                                                             King Josiah dies (Jeremiah called in    
                                                                             --13th year of his rein)|Pharoah Neco join
                                                                              Nebuchadnezzer II (Babylon) destroy     
                                                                              --Jerusalem and Judah goes into exile (Jer
Lamentations                                                                   Jeremiah???                                
Baruch                                                                                       Baruch (first 3 sections?) and Jeremiah  
Ezekiel                                                                       unknown                                     
                                                                             Nebuchadnezzer II reduces Judah to      
                                                                             --vassal state, royal court members taken 
                                                                              Judah taken in                          
                                                                              --exile                                   
                                                                              Temple destroyed, end of Davidic        
                                                                              --Kingship                                
Daniel                                                                                             Ch 1-6 Daniel? (from 600s)               
                                                                             Exile in Babylon under Nebuchadnezzer   
                                                                             --II, interprets dreams, predicts Christ's
Hosea                                                                  unknown                                            
                                                                     called around this time under King      
                                                                     --Jeroboam II                             
Joel                                                                                    post-exilic                              
Amos                                                                  Amos                                                
                                                                      around the time King Jeroboam II of     
                                                                      --north and King Uzziah of Judah          
Obadiah                                                                            unknown                                  
                                                                              Edomites (descendants of Esau) help     
                                                                              --with destruction of Jerusalem, not helpi
Jonah                                                                                unknown                                  
                                                                      lived around the time King Jeroboam II  
                                                                      --of north. Oddity in that not about evil 
Micah                                                                    Micah of Moresheth                               
                                                                       Time of Kings Jotham, Ahaz and          
                                                                       --Hezikiah                                
Nahum                                                                     Nahum of Elkosh                                 
                                                                          King Manasseh|Conquest of               
                                                                          --Thebes                                  
                                                                             King Josiah|Fall of Nineveh to Babylon, 
                                                                             --Medes and Scythians                     
Habakkuk                                                                     Habakkuk                                     
                                                                             Habakkuk has dialog with God -          
                                                                             --complaints to God and God reveals plans 
                                                                             King Jehoiakim, just prior to           
                                                                             --Nebuchadnezzer taking Daniel et. al. in 
Zephaniah                                                                    Prophet to Judah                             
                                                                            King Josiah trys to remove pagan        
                                                                            --contamination - time that Zephaniah proh
Haggai                                                                            unknown                                  
                                                                                 Captives released from Babylon by Cyrus 
                                                                                 --II of Persia|Persia conquers Babylon    
                                                                                 Haggai?? encourages continued work on   
                                                                                 --rebuilding 2nd Temple.                  
                                                                                 *Zerubbabel* son of *Shealtiel* is      
                                                                                 --governer, Joshua is high priest. Zerubba
                                                                                  Temple construction is                  
                                                                                  --finished                                
Zechariah                                                                         Zecharia son of Berechiah, Ch 9-14 ???   
                                                                                 Return of captives released by Cyrus II 
                                                                                 --from Babylon                            
                                                                                  With Haggai, urgin completion of and    
                                                                                  --thus Temple construction is finished    
                                                                                  Zechariah predicts the Northern tribes  
                                                                                  --(Israel) will be restored along with the
Malachi                                                                             unknown                                  
                                                                                   Judah again falls into weariness and    
                                                                                   --corruption|Persia calls Judah the proven
HISTORY                                                                                     Alexander the Great conquers Persia and 
1 Maccabees                                                                                            unknown                                  
                                                                                                   Judaism is suppressed|Seleucid King     
                                                                                                   --Antiochus IV Epiphanes rules Judah      
2 Maccabees                                                                                          unknown                                  
                                                                                                            Attests creation from nothing which     
                                                                                                            --also explains bodily resurrection, subst
HISTORY                                                                                                  Rome takes over Israel                  
HISTORY                                                                                                   Herod the Great                          
HISTORY                                                                                                    Augustus, first emporer of Rome         
Matthew Aramai                                                                                                Early version of Matthew in Aramaic?     
Matthew                                                                                                        Gospel                                   
                                                                                                           Birth of Jesus|Roman                    
                                                                                                           --rule                                    
                                                                                                           Wise Men (Magi), Herod killing          
                                                                                                           --innocents, Flight to Egypt              
                                                                                                            |Tiberius is emporer of                 
                                                                                                            --Rome                                    
                                                                                                             |Pontius Pilate is prefect of           
                                                                                                             --Judea                                   
                                                                                                             Jesus' Public Life, Tempting in desert  
                                                                                                             --by Satan, Baptism by John               
                                                                                                             New Covenant proclaimed, Passion, Death 
                                                                                                             --and Resurrection|Pontius Pilate         
Mark                                                                                                           Gospel                                   
                                                                                                             New Covenant proclaimed, Passion, Death 
                                                                                                             --and Resurrection|Pontius Pilate         
Luke                                                                                                           Gospel                                   
                                                                                                           Birth of Jesus, Presentation of the     
                                                                                                           --Lord                                    
                                                                                                           Finding in                              
                                                                                                           --Temple                                  
                                                                                                             New Covenant proclaimed, Passion, Death 
                                                                                                             --and Resurrection|Pontius Pilate         
John                                                                                                            Gospel                                   
                                                                                                             Wedding Feast at                        
                                                                                                             --Cana                                    
                                                                                                             Passion, Death and Resurrection|Pontius 
                                                                                                             --Pilate                                  
                                                                                                             Ascension of the                        
                                                                                                             --Lord                                    
Acts of Apostl                                                                                                 Luke                                     
                                                                                                             Pentecost|Jewish Feast of Harvest (also 
                                                                                                             --Pentecost, 50 days from Passover)       
                                                                                                             Spread of church, first to Jews and     
                                                                                                             --Gentiles in Jerusalem, follows Peter    
                                                                                                             Saul persecutes the followers of Jesus, 
                                                                                                             --helps kill Stephen is converted near Ant
                                                                                                             Paul spreads the                        
                                                                                                             --Gospel                                  
                                                                                                             Paul in                                 
                                                                                                             --Jerusalem                               
                                                                                                              Paul's first missionary                 
                                                                                                              --journey                                 
                                                                                                              Council of Jerusalem - coversion to     
                                                                                                              --Judaism first is NOT required           
                                                                                                              Paul's second missionary                
                                                                                                              --journey                                 
                                                                                                              Paul's third missionary                 
                                                                                                              --journey                                 
HISTORY                                                                                                        Peter and Paul die in Rome Nero starts f 
HISTORY                                                                                                        Jewish war with Rome                     
HISTORY                                                                                                        Destruction of Second Temple             
HISTORY                                                                                                         Death of John the Apostle, end of aposto 
Romans                                                                                                        Paul                                     
1 Corinthians                                                                                                 unknown                                  
2 Corinthians                                                                                                 unknown                                  
Galatians                                                                                                     Paul                                     
Ephesians                                                                                                      Paul                                     
Philippians                                                                                                    Paul                                     
Colossians                                                                                                     Paul                                     
1 Thessalonian                                                                                                unknown                                  
2 Thessalonian                                                                                                unknown                                  
1 Timothy                                                                                                      unknown                                  
2 Timothy                                                                                                      unknown                                  
Titus                                                                                                          Paul, Titus was his companion and Paul c 
Philemon                                                                                                       Paul                                     
Hebrews                                                                                                        Unknown                                  
James                                                                                                         Disciple James of Jerusalem, cousin of J 
1 Peter                                                                                                        unknown                                  
2 Peter                                                                                                        unknown                                  
1 John                                                                                                          unknown                                  
2 John                                                                                                          unknown                                  
3 John                                                                                                          unknown                                  
Jude                                                                                                           Jude Thaddeus                            
Revelation                                                                                                     Apostle John                             
HISTORY                                                                                                        Destruction of Temple Rome conquers and  
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