Old Testament Timeline

1-page Visualization by time and geography

The Problem

  • How do I make sense of the Old Testament?
  • How do the 39 books of the Old Testament relate?
  • I don't want a large accordion O.T. Timeline.

The Solution

  • Fits on 1 page
  • Visualize how all 39 books of the Old Testament relate by time and geography
  • Understand the plot, covenants, characters and eras of Israel

About

     The Old Testament (O.T.) Timeline was created because the O.T. is incredibly complex and there had to be a better way to visualize it. This novel approach visually relates important information of the OT (39 books, plot, covenants, characters and eras of Israel) by time and geography on one page! The timeline helps you quickly find how something from the O.T. relates to other elements of the O.T.

     The vertical axis (up and down) represents time. The horizontal axis (left and right) represents rough geography. The story of the O.T. is shown in gray and black and moves East and West across the Ancient Near East over the span of 1,700 years. The 39 books of the O.T. are shown in blue. Blue outlines represent the time span of events that are described in a book (not when the book was written). Because the timeline orders the books of the O.T. chronologically, a number is provided by the book name stating the canonical placement of the book in the protestant Bible.

     The timeline was created by an engineer who is also a bible teacher with the greatest care for historical accuracy. It has been reviewed by several Biblical scholars. Dates assume an early date for the Exodus. Some books are difficult to position in history and those books were given a blue underline to note that assumptions were needed to place them in time.