Judaeo-Christian Approximate Timeline
(GEN 2/11/09)
BCE CE
960 Torah 450 4 30 50 64 68 73 80 85 88 92 95 100
Tanakh – the Hebrew Bible Jesus Paul wrote Mark Matthew Luke John
when the Gospels were written
1850 BCE – Abraham
1400 BCE – Western Semitic people invented the alphabetic system of writing
1250 BCE – Moses
1250 - 1200 BCE – Exodus and conquest of Canaan
11th Century BCE - Samuel
10th Century BCE – 1 in a thousand people could write; therefore oral traditions
920 BCE – Solomon dies
9th Century BCE – Elijah
8th Century BCE – Isaiah
721 BCE – Northern Kingdom ended – exiled to Assyria – 10 lost tribes
7th Century BCE - Jeremiah
690 BCE - Torah stories redacted –Yahweh(Southern Kingdom)/Elohim(Northern Kingdom)
6th Century BCE - Ezekiel
586(596) BCE – Southern Kingdom exiled to Babylon – freed in 538 BCE
200 BCE – Apocrypha written
160 BCE – Book of Daniel
313 CE – Constantine – Edict of Milan – Toleration for Christianity
325 CE – 1st Council of Nicaea – Bithynia (Iznik) Turkey
367 CE – Athanasius’ Easter letter listed books that would become the New Testament canon
4th Century CE - Apostles' Creed
5th – 11th Century CE – The Dark Ages…
1517 CE, October 31st – Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses in Wittenberg
Ten Commandments – Exodus 20 – 850 BCE & 560 BCE – God rested from work of creation
Exodus 34 – 950 BCE
Deuteronomy 5 – 625 BCE – slaves need a day of rest
Sources used: Jesus Seminar, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Wikipedia