Biblical Timeline

1. Biblical Timeline A Bible Study

2. Emergence of civilization as measured by formations of cities and written language Nomadic until arrival Of Europeans 1492 AD 1700 BC -1027 BC Shang Dynasty writing on oracle bones Uruk Period 3500 BC – 3000 BC Maya 1000 BC – 1521 AD Aztec 1200 AD – 1521 AD Egypt Early Dynasty 3100 BC – 2500 BC

3. Uruk Period 3500 – 3000 BC Cities first emerge in the Area of Southern Babylon. Mesopotamia Period 3000 – 2000 BC Capital City at Ur Secular Timeline Egypt Early Dynasty 3100 – 2700 BC Egypt Old Kingdom 2700 – 2000 BC Biblical Timeline Mahalalel 3506 BC Adam & Eve 3900 BC Flood 2245 BC Nahor 2054 BC Lamach 3027 BC Terah 2025 BC Enoch 3274 BC Enos 3666 BC Noah 2845 BC Jared 3440 BC Methuselah 3214 BC Seth 3770 BC

4. Secular Timeline Asia: Shang Dynasty 1700 – 1000 BC Mesopotamia Babylonian Period 2000 – 1500 BC The Great States: 1500 – 1200 BC Fall of the Great States: Hammurabi 1763 BC 1200 – 900 BC Babylonia, Anatolia, Mesopotamia Egypt Middle Kingdom 2000 – 1700 BC Egypt New Kingdom 1700 – 1000 BC Tutmoses III 1479 BC Ramesses II 1213 BC The Judges 1363 - 1050 BC Biblical Timeline The Kings 1050 - 721 Enter the Promise Land 1408 BC Abraham 1955 BC Exodus 1450 BC Joseph 1704 BC Moses 1530 BC Tower of Babel Isaac 1855 BC Jacob 1795 BC Samuel Ruth Ehud Tola & Jair Sampson Deborah Gideon Saul

5. Asia: Zhou Dynasty 1000 BC – 221 BC/South America: Maya 1000 BC – 1521 AD Assyrian World Domination 900 BC - 626BC Persian World Domination 539 BC - 323BC Secular Timeline Babylon Domination 626 BC- 539 BC Upper & Lower Egypt Split 1000 BC Persians Conquer Egypt 525 - 323 Assyria Attacks Egypt 700 BC Fall of the Northern Kingdom (Israel) to Assyria in 710 BC Josiah’s Reformation 628 BC Ezra returns to Jerusalem from Babylon 458 BC Nehemiah goes to Jerusalem & Rebuilds the walls 445 BC Nehemiah returned to Babylon 433 BC Nehemiah returns to Jerusalem ? BC Jeremiah 600 BC Ezekiel 580 BC Israel/Judea Divided Kingdom 933 BC David King 1003 - 970 BC Solomon 970 BC Judea saved by miracle from Assyria in 710 BC Fall of Southern Kingdom (Judea) to Babylon in 586 BC Biblical Timeline

6. Asia: 221 BC beginning of the Great Wall (Qin Dynasty); Han Dynasty 206 BC – 8 A.D. Asia: Shang Dynasty 1700 – 1000 BC Secular Timeline Hellenistic Greece Empire 323 BC - 200 BC Roman Empire 200 BC– 500 AD Romans Conquer Egypt 30 BC – 646 AD Greeks conquer Egypt 323 BC – 200 BC Ptolemaic Dynasty 200 BC – 30 BC Jews in the Diaspora. Writing of the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books: Susanna [Daniel] 90 BC, Prayer of Azariah 175 BC, Bel and the Dragon 50 BC, Esther addition 50 BC, 1st Esdras 50 BC, Judith 300 BC, Wisdom of Solomon 50 BC, Sirach 180 BC, Baruch 180 BC, Letter of Jeremiah 50 BC, 1 Maccabees 103 BC, 2 Maccabees 100 BCE Biblical Timeline

7. Destruction of the Temple 70 AD Destruction Of Jerusalem 136 AD Constantine makes Christianity the official religion of Rome AD 330 The Empire is permanently Divided 395 AD Secular Timeline Romans persecute Christians Starting with Nero in AD 86 – AD 313 New Testament Writings 40 AD – 85 AD Time of Heresies & Schisms Marcion - Rejected the OT & issued a NT of Luke + 10 letters Gnosticism - redeemer revealed away for souls to return to the spiritual world 150 AD – 325 AD Ratification of the Cannon 397 AD The Nicene Creed 325 AD Christians kicked out of the Synagogue Death & Resurrection 30 AD Birth of Jesus 2 BC Biblical Timeline

8. Secular Timeline The loss of Northern Europe to Francia 550 AD – 800 AD Fall of Rome 410 AD Lose of Southern & Eastern Mediterranean to Islam 650 AD – 800 AD Mahmoud AD 570 - AD 632 Internal Political and Theological battles (mostly East vs. West) Christian Reaction to Islam incursion 650 – 800 AD Boniface I became the 1st “papal vicar” of Rome 418-422 AD Establishment Of the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church 3rd Response Realistic Assessment Positioning 1st Response A chastisement for sins Repentance 2nd Response Apocalyptic interpretation Prepare Biblical Timeline Map circa 800 AD

9. The Dark Ages Seljuk Turks take Palestine and Jerusalem 1070-71 Continuous Battles between Islam & Christianity The Holy Roman Empire was a German Empire established in 962 AD Caliph Al-Hakim Starts campaign To convert all Jews & Christians 1009 AD Secular Timeline Papal revival Under Leo IX 1049 Schism between East & West 1054 3rd Crusade 1187-92 1st Crusade 1096-99 2nd Crusade 1147-49 Dictatus Papae 1075 Biblical Timeline Europe Main Map at the Beginning of the Year 1200

10. The Plague Killed 1/3rdof Population 1347-51 Shakespeare: 1564-1616 The Renaissance: 1350-1550 Secular Timeline Aristotle’s corpus became available Intellectual revival and establishment of universities The beginning of the age of reason Leonardo da Vinci 1452 to 1519 Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 to 1527 Invention of Printing Press 1450 Henry VIII Breaks with Rome 1538 The Spanish Armada 1588 Rodger Bacon introduces Math, science & Philosophy into religious Study 1285 Thomas Aquinas’ Natural Theology 1268 The 1400 began a time of financial corruption in the church/state Martin Luther 1483 – 1546 John Calvin 1509- 1564 The 4th to 8th Crusades 1202-71 Protestants attempt to define themselves after Luther & Calvin Biblical Timeline Europe Main Map at the Beginning of the Year 1600

11. American Revolution 1776 Rene Descartes Discourse on Reason 1637 30 Years War 1618 1648 Rene Descartes Discourse on Reason 1637 Frances Willard 1839-1898 Women’s Christian Temperance David Hume Experience only source of knowledge 1711-76 Secular Timeline WW I 1914 – 1918 WW II 1939 – 1945 French Revolution 1789 Beginning of Pietism Movement 1606 John Wesley 1703-1791) Carl Barth Dialectical Theology Theology of Crisis 1930’s & 40’s John Locke Reasonableness of Christianity 1695 Albert Schweitzer Introduces Biblical critical Methods 1875-1965 Voltaire and Deism 1763 Karl Marx 1818- 1883 Biblical Timeline Emergence of Puritanism in England 1603 Europe Main Map at the Beginning of the Year 2000