Garnet

Hello all,

I'm trying to find a time line of bible evolution. (Pun intended...couldn't help myself.) Anyway, I've tried searching in Google and Dogpile, but all I can find are those timelines drawn from the bible itself. The ones that start with Adam and Eve and "prove" that the earth is 6000 years old. Gack.

I'm looking for a timeline that shows approximate dates of when texts were written, canonization and things like that. In essence, a timeline of the history of the bible. Does such a critter exist?

Garnet

Gothic_J

age of reason shows most of the books were written a few centuries after their subject material.

Toto

History of the gospels covers the NT. I'm sure that someone will quibble with some of the conclusions.

There is a more orthodox timeline here for the NT, Hebrew Scriptures here.

{mods, you can move this to BCH more more responses.)

Gooch's dad

Moved to BCH, it is. And thanks, mods, for unlocking the thread after my goof.

Gooch's dad, MD moderator

Sensei Meela

http://www.cwo.com/~pentrack/catholic/chron.html

It's only for the NT, and I'll make no claims of accuracy but it seems to (more or less) jibe with the majority consensus here [so far as I've perceived it].

[edit -- just checked 'em out: those are some fantastic links, Toto! Thanks!]

Garnet

Thanks all. This is exactly the kind of stuff I was looking for. :notworthy

Celsus

You'll want to be careful with that one. It's by no means the consensus, and it appears to be a rehash of Friedman's dating which is a bit silly considering that E is hardly accepted in scholarship anymore.

Joel