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• Bible timeline with side-by-side dates, events, and books of the Bible.
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A Simple, Comprehensive Bible Timeline Chart

This simple and easy-to-understand Bible timeline chart gives you a bird’s eye view of the story of Scripture. The Bible is a unified story of redemption through Jesus Christ, but sometimes it’s hard to see that truth through all the details. This chart helps you see the forest, and not just the trees.

This chart serves as a helpful aid for any teacher or student of Scripture. Map your Bible-reading journey with a clarifying visual aid that gives you a whole-Bible perspective, tracing the story of salvation from Adam to Jesus Christ. The complete Bible Timeline Chart is an indispensable study aid, whether you’re leading a Sunday school class, facilitating a home Bible study, preaching a sermon series, or studying the Bible on your own.

 

Featuring Old and New Testament Timelines

This timeline follows the course of Scripture in mostly chronological order, while maintaining the cannon’s intentional order for the story. Respecting the biblical canon’s order is important, but notes about when crucial events happened in timeline order are also helpful.

For instance, while this timeline starts with Genesis, a reference is included to John 1 in the New Testament, which explains that Jesus was there in the beginning, and nothing was created except through Him. Later, around 1000 BC, what we now call the “Wisdom Books“ of the Bible were being written: Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes. However, Job was also included in the Wisdom Books by the original compilers of Scripture, although most scholars believe it to be the oldest book in the canon. This detail is included in the timeline chart, marking the Book of Job back before 2100 BC. We believe details like this help aid a comprehensive grasp of the whole scope of the Bible.

This chart leaves the roughly 400-year intertestamental period empty while nodding to some of the major books of the Apocrypha. We omit this portion of history, not because we think it doesn’t contain details that aid our understanding of the context of the New Testament, but because this area was omitted from the protestant canon. While we welcome Bible studiers from all denominations and traditions, Bible Study Visuals is a broadly evangelical protestant publication. The timeline ends with Jesus’ appearance to John in the book of “Revelation“.

Non-Biased Study Notes

While Bible Study Visuals maintains evangelical protestant beliefs, it was our goal with this chart to offer as bias-free and objective notes as possible. This timeline focuses on the major details of Scripture that are not disputed between orthodox Christians from all traditions. While the timeline itself is naturally a matter of debate among Bible scholars and archaeologists, we are confident that the alignment of dates and biblical events will satisfy all believers. For this reason, this Bible timeline chart is excellent to show to newcomers to the faith as well as seasoned Christians from any denomination or theological conviction. Those who hold that the Bible is God’s true revelation to the world will enjoy and be edified by this complete Bible timeline.

 

Resources Accessed for this Chart

While the exact dates of biblical stories and events are a subject of debate, the timeline presented in this chart is grounded in thorough biblical scholarship and traditional dating methods. The biblical dates used here are drawn from widely accepted figures and scholarly consensus, based on sources such as Wilmington’s Guide to the Bible, A Survey of Israel’s History by Wood, the ESV Study Bible, Easton’s Bible Dictionary, The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, and the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.