Old Testament Survey

By rileyannparker
  • 4000 BCE

    Creation?

  • Period: 4000 BCE to 2100 BCE

    Prehistory Epoch

    Genesis 1-11
  • 3960 BCE

    Adam & Eve?

    Genesis 2
  • 2894 BCE

    Birth of Noah?

    Gen 5
  • 2304 BCE

    Flood?

    Genesis 6
  • 2197 BCE

    Tower of Babel?

    Genesis 11
  • 2000 BCE

    Job?

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1550 BCE

    Patriarch Epoch

    Genesis 12-50, Middle Bronze
  • 1951 BCE

    God Sends Abraham?

    Genesis 12
  • 1851 BCE

    Birth of Isaac?

    Genesis 25:26
  • 1791 BCE

    Birth of Jacob?

    Genesis 25
  • 1700 BCE

    Birth of Joseph?

    Genesis 30
  • 1526 BCE

    Birth of Moses?

    Exodus 2
  • 1446 BCE

    Exodus from Egypt?

    Exodus 16:35
  • 1446 BCE

    Moses Receives the Law?

    Exodus 21-24
  • 1446 BCE

    10 Commandments

    Exodus 20
  • Period: 1446 BCE to 1200 BCE

    Exodus/Conquest Epoch?

    Exodus-Joshua
    Late Bronze Age
  • Period: 1446 BCE to 1445 BCE

    Tabernacle Prepared & Built

  • Period: 1445 BCE to 1405 BCE

    Genesis?

    Date Written
  • Period: 1445 BCE to 1405 BCE

    Exodus?

    Date Written
  • Period: 1445 BCE to 1405 BCE

    Leviticus?

    Date Written
  • Period: 1445 BCE to 1405 BCE

    Numbers?

    Date Written
  • Period: 1445 BCE to 1405 BCE

    Deuteronomy?

    Date Written
  • 1406 BCE

    Crossing of Jordan River?

    Joshua 14:7
  • 1406 BCE

    God Commissions Joshua

    Joshua 1
  • Period: 1405 BCE to 1385 BCE

    Joshua?

    Date Written
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Period of the Judges

    Judges-Ruth
  • 1169 BCE

    Gideon & the Midianites

    Judges 6-8
  • 1140 BCE

    Naomi, Ruth, & Boaz

    Ruth 1-4
  • 1100 BCE

    Saul Begins Reign?

  • 1060 BCE

    David Begins Reign?

  • Period: 1043 BCE to 1043 BCE

    Judges

    Date Written
  • Period: 1030 BCE to 1010 BCE

    Ruth

    Date Written
  • 1020 BCE

    Solomon Begins Reign?

  • 1016 BCE

    Solomon Starts Building Temple?

    1 Kings 11:42
  • 1000 BCE

    Ark To Jerusalem

  • 1000 BCE

    Davidic Covenant?

  • 1000 BCE

    Psalms?

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 586 BCE

    Monarchy Epoch

    1 Samuel-Esther
  • 970 BCE

    Song of Songs

  • 970 BCE

    Proverbs

  • 950 BCE

    Ecclesiastes

  • 931 BCE

    Kingdom Divided

  • Period: 931 BCE to 722 BCE

    1& 2 Samuel?

    Written
  • 930 BCE

    Division of Israel

  • 858 BCE

    Elisha Called

  • 850 BCE

    Elijah To Heaven

  • Period: 780 BCE to 705 BCE

    Assyrian Threat

  • Period: 745 BCE to 685 BCE

    Book of Isaiah

  • 721 BCE

    Minor Prophets Before 721 B.C.

    During the time of Assyrian threat.
    Hosea
    Joel
    Amos
  • Period: 712 BCE to 586 BCE

    Minor Prophets from 721 - 586 B.C.

    Obadiah
    Jonah
    Micah
    Nahum
    Habakkuk
    Zephaniah
  • Period: 700 BCE to 530 BCE

    Babylonian Threat

  • 627 BCE

    Call of Jeremiah

  • Period: 627 BCE to 580 BCE

    Jeremiah

  • 612 BCE

    Nineveh Destroyed

  • 588 BCE

    New Covenant

  • 587 BCE

    Book of Job?

    Time of Writing
  • 586 BCE

    Daniel

    Written during the time of Babylonian Captivity
  • 586 BCE

    Ezekiel

    Written around the time of Babylonian exile
  • 586 BCE

    Minor Prophets After 586 B.C.

    Haggai
    Zechariah
    Malachi
  • Period: 586 BCE to 430 BCE

    Exile/Return Epoch

    Esther-Malachi
  • Period: 586 BCE to 538 BCE

    Babylonian Captivity

  • Period: 561 BCE to 538 BCE

    1&2 Kings?

    Written
  • 538 BCE

    1st Return

  • 538 BCE

    Return to Jerusalem

  • Period: 536 BCE to 444 BCE

    Jerusalem Rebuilt

  • 535 BCE

    Temple Work Begins

  • 515 BCE

    Completion & Dedication of Temple

  • 464 BCE

    Book of Esther?

  • 458 BCE

    2nd Return

  • Period: 457 BCE to 400 BCE

    Ezra/Nehemiah ?

  • Period: 450 BCE to 430 BCE

    1&2 Chronicles

    Date Written
  • Period: 450 BCE to 331 BCE

    Esther?

    Date Written
  • 445 BCE

    3rd Return

  • 444 BCE

    Nehemiah Starts to Build Walls

  • 444 BCE

    Ezra Reads Law

  • Period: 440 BCE to 40 BCE

    400 Years of Silence

  • 400 BCE

    Book of Chronicles?