Bible History
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Updated: 4 months ago
This timeline is being created as part of the Through the Bible class at Venture Church in Mill Creek, Washington. You can listen to the teaching and access notes and presentations at: https://www.joshuatallent.com/bible/
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Created by Joshua Tallent
Attachments
Events
Exodus Jacob moves to Egypt Slavery Begins Moses Flees to Midian Amenhotep II's First Campaign Amenhotep II's Second "First" Campaign Amenhotep II's Third Campaign Conquest Begins Temple Completed Abrahamic Covenant Jacob Steals the Birthright Jacob Returns Home Joseph Sold into Egypt Joseph becomes Vizier Major battles in Israel completed Division of the Kingdom Decree of Cyrus Second Temple Dedicated
Official End of the Babylonian exile Septuagint Translated Flood Tower of Babel Sodom Destroyed Nehemiah rebuilds the
Wall of Jerusalem Ezra and Second
Return of Exiles Zerubbabel and the first exiles return Nehemiah and Third
Return of exiles Invention of writing in Sumer at Uruk. First instance of written language in Sumerian Code of Hammurabi Anno Mundi 1 Jesus Born Hale-Bopp Comet Göbekli Tepe Quaternary Extinction Event Samaritan Temple built
on Mount Gerizim Mount Vesuvius Erupts John the Baptist
Born Periods
Abraham (lifetime) Isaac (lifetime) Jacob (lifetime) Joseph (lifetime) Moses (lifetime) David Solomon Shem (lifetime) 430 years in Slavery Saul Joshua (lifetime) Iron Age I Iron Age II Early Bronze Age III Early Bronze Age IV Middle Bronze Age I Middle Bronze Age IIA Middle Bronze Age IIB Middle Bronze Age IIC Late Bronze Age I Late Bronze Age IIA Late Bronze Age IIB Ezra Nehemiah Noah Lamech Methuselah Enoch Yered Mahalalel Kenan Enosh Seth Adam Arphaxad Salah Eber Peleg Reu Serug Nahor Terah Ishmael Esther Work on temple ceases 4.2-kiloyear BP aridification event Earliest traces of wine making, in China and Anatolia Grouping
Egyptian Dynasties
Egyptian Pharaohs
Assyrian Empire
Events
Fall of Nineveh Sargon defeats
Ashdod Periods
Tukulti-Ninurta II Ashurnasipal II Shalmaneser III Shamsi-Adad V Adad-nirari III Shalmaneser IV Ashur-dan III Ashur-nirari V Tiglath-pileser III Shalmaneser V Sargon II Sennacherib Esarhaddon Ashurbanipal Ashur-etil-ilani Sinsharishkun Ashur-uballit II Achaemenid (Persian) Empire
Babylonian Empire
Events
Battle of Carchemish Fall of Babylon Assyrians conquer Babylon Merodach-Baladan sends
ambassadors to Hezekiah Nabopolassar defeats
the Assyrians near Harran Medes take Aššur, the
religious capital of Assyria Babylon and Media
make alliance Babylon falls to
Sennacherib Periods
Nabopolassar Nebuchadnezzar II Amel-Marduk Nergal-Shar-asur Nabonidus Belshazzar Merodach-Baladan II Merodach-Baladan II The Judges
Events
Battle of Aphek
Shiloh Destroyed
Ark Captured Shamgar defeats the Philistines? Periods
Othniel Ehud Samuel Eli Samson Abdon Elon Ibzan Jepthah Jair Tola Abimelech The Elders Oppression by Cushan-Rishathaim, King of Mesopotamia Oppression by Eglon, King of Moab Oppression by Midian Gideon Ammonite Oppression
(ended by Jepthah) Philistine Oppression
(ended by Samson) Philistine Oppression 80 Years of Peace - Judges 3:30 Grouping
Northern Israel
Kingdom of Judah
Events
Sennacherib's third campaign
Destruction of Lachish
Siege of Jerusalem Jerusalem Besieged
Jehoiachin and Ezekiel taken to Babylon Fall of Jerusalem
Temple Destroyed Uzziah’s earthquake Jerusalem Besieged
Daniel taken to Babylon Battle of Megiddo Final Siege of Jerusalem begins Periods
Rehoboam Abijah Asa Jehoshaphat Jehoram Ahaziah Athaliah Joash Amaziah Uzziah Jotham Ahaz Manasseh Amon Josiah Jehoahaz Jehoiakim Jehoiachin/
Jeconiah Zedekiah Hezekiah Kingdom of Israel
Events
Sargon Destroys Samaria
Northern Kingdom taken captive Shalmaneser V
attacks Samaria Tiglath-Pilester III
takes major cities
in Israel captive Periods
Jeroboam I Nadab Baasha Elah Zimri Omri Tibni Ahab Ahaziah Joram Jehu Jehoahaz Jehoash Jeroboam II Zechariah Shallum Menahem Pekahiah Pekah Hoshea Prophets
Periods
Isaiah (Judah) Jeremiah (Judah) Ezekiel (Babylon) Daniel (Babylon) Hosea (Israel) Joel (Judah) Amos (Israel) Obadiah (Judah) Jonah (Israel/Nineveh) Micah (Judah) Nahum (Judah) Habakkuk (Judah) Zephaniah (Judah) Haggai (Judah, post-exile) Zechariah (Judah, post-exile) Malachi (Judah, post-exile) Elijah Elisha Grouping
Ezekiel's Dates
Events
Ezekiel 1
Call to ministry Ezekiel 8
Vision of Temple Abominations Ezekiel 20
Response to Elders Ezekiel 24
Jerusalem's Judgement Ezekiel 26
Against Tyre Ezekiel 29:1
Against Egypt Ezekiel 29:17
Egypt in place of Tyre Ezekiel 30:20
Against Pharaoh Ezekiel 31
Against Pharaoh Ezekiel 32:1
Lament for Pharaoh Ezekiel 32:17
Lament for Egypt Ezekiel 33:21
News of the fall of Jerusalem Ezekiel 40:1
Vision of Israel Haggai and Zechariah Prophecies
Aramean Empire
Hasmonean Kingdom
Greek Republic
Archaeology
Events
Ramesses II Defeats the Sea Peoples in the Nile Delta Battle of Djahy
Battle of the Delta Merneptah Stele Soleb Inscription Hazor Destroyed Battle of Kadesh Mesha Stele Tel Dan Stele Tiglath-Pileser III
Summary Inscription Seven Tiglath-Pileser III
Summary Inscription Four Siloam Inscription Limmu List Eclipse Esarhaddon Prism Taylor Prism Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III Iran Stele Lachish Reliefs Edomite Shrine
at Tel Tamar Jerusalem Chronicle Arad Ostracon 24 The Lachish Letters Seal of Ahaz Sargon II Prism Cyrus Cylinder Yaqub-har Scarab Hezekiah Bulla Periods
Amarna Letters Bronze Age Collapse
Growing threat of the Philistines Berlin Inscription Roman Republic/Empire
Events
Sulla marches on Rome First Triumvirate Formed Julius Caesar Crosses the Rubicon Julius Caesar Assassinated Hanibal Crosses the Alps Tiberius Graccus passes the
Agrarian Law Battle of Actium Periods
First Punic War Second Punic War Third Punic War Caesar Augustus Tiberius Caesar Caligula Claudius Nero Galba Otho Vitellius Vespasian Titus Domitian Social War First Servile War
(Sicilian Slave Revolt) Second Servile War Third Servile War
(Spartacus) Herodian Rulers
Events
Herod overthrows the
Hasmoneans, with support
from Marc Antony Caesarea
Maritima
Dedicated Archelaus is exiled for incompetence;
Judea becomes a Roman province Zealot Revolt led by
Judas the Galilean Periods
Herod the Great Herod Archelaus Herod Antipas Herod Philip II Antipater the Idumaean Herod Agrippa Grouping
Akkadian Empire
Approximate Dates of the Apostolic Writings
Apostles
Events
Crucifixion Resurrection Pentecost Philip in Samaria Paul's Damascus
Road Experience Cornelius Jerusalem Council Jerusalem Destroyed
by Romans Siege of Jerusalem Begins Death of
Stephen Death of
James Death of
Peter Believers Banned
From Temple Flight to
Pella Death of
John Peter and Clement
face Simon Magus Disciples first called
Christians in Antioch Death of
Mary Apostolates
Decided Peter's Arrest
and Release Death of
James son of
Zebedee Peter Visits
Antioch Bartholomew
in Africa Passover
Riot Halley’s Comet
visible over Jerusalem Death of
Thomas Andrew in
Macedonia Philip in
Greece John Arrives
in Ephesus Death of
Andrew Death of
Bartholomew Christianity declared
Illegal Religion Alexandrian
Pogrom Paul Meets
with Peter Fire in Rome Imprecation against heretics
(Birkat HaMinim) Periods
Claudius' Expels Jews from Rome Jewish Revolt Thomas in Gudnaphar Thomas' second trip to India Siege of Masada John in Ephesus John Exiled to Patmos Caligula's Statues Jewish Leaders
Events
Yochanan ben Zakkai
escapes Jerusalem Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
on trial as a believer Periods
Rabban Gamaliel Rabbi Akiva Annas
High Priest Joseph, ben Caiaphas
High Priest Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi Shimon HaTzaddik Antigonus of Socho Men of the Great Assembly
Anshei Knesset HaGedolah Jason, High Priest Simon II, High Priest Onias III, High Priest Menelaus, High Priest Grouping
The Sumerian Renaissance
Seleucid Empire
Paul
Events
Paul Arrested
in Jerusalem Paul is Acquitted Paul's Second
Imprisonment in Rome Death of Paul Paul Arrested
in Miletus Paul Meets with
James, Peter,
and John John Mark
Abandons Mission Paul before
Festus and Agrippa II Periods
First Journey Second Journey Third Journey Journey to Rome Spain, Crete,
Philippi, Nicopolis Damascus Tarsus Antioch Settled in Ephesus Christian Apocrypha and Writings
Events
Didache
(70-100 CE) 1 Clement Odes of Solomon
(125-150 CE) Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
(150–200 CE) Apocalypse of Elijah
(150-275 CE) Apocalypse of Peter
(2nd century CE) Gospel of Thomas
(2nd century CE) Gospel of Peter
(2nd century CE) Epistle of Barnabas
(70-135 CE) Shepherd of Hermas
(100-150 CE) 2 Clement
(100-140 CE) Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Events
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
(196–175 BCE) Tobit
(225-175 BCE) Judith 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees Greek Additions to Esther
(300-100 BCE) Wisdom of Solomon 1 Esdras 1 Baruch 3 Maccabees
(1st c. BCE) Prayer of Manasseh
(early 1st century CE) 4 Maccabees 1 Enoch (Similitudes)
(300-100 BCE) 2 Enoch Jubilees
(160-150 BCE) Letter of Aristeas
(200-150 BCE) 2 Baruch Oldest part of 1 Enoch
(Book of the Watchers) Church Fathers
Periods
Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch Polycarp of Smyrna Justin Martyr Irenaeus of Lyons Tertullian Clement of Alexandria Origen of Alexandria Cyprian of Carthage Eusebius of Caesarea Athanasius Ephrem the Syrian Hilary of Poitiers Basil the Great Gregory of Nazianzus Gregory of Nyssa Ambrose of Milan Jerome John Chrysostom Augustine of Hippo Papias of Hierapolis Grouping
Ante-Nicaean Christianity
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