Timeline of the Bible

Historical Timeline of the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament

OLD TESTAMENT

Biblical Period	Theoretical Historical Period	Notes
Creation	13 billion years ago	Theory: God's Creation is the Big Bang. Note that the Catholic Church does not adhere to any particular theory or timeline of Creation. See the CCC 282 for "Catechesis on Creation")
	1 Anno Mundi (AM)^[1]	Transposing the Hebrew calendar to the Julian Calendar, the universe was created 3,761 BC. The Hebrew calendar is based upon a literal counting of the lifespans of Adam and his descendants, as reported in the Old Testament, going backwards from
	6,000-10.000 years ago	Fundamentalist theory: literal counting of the years and lifespans backwards from the current time
God Creates Adam & Eve
The Flood
Birth of Abraham

	1948

Sources


Biblical Period	Theoretical Historical Period	Dating of Scriptural Writing	Notes

Joshua	1400-1370 BC	written late 600s BC
Judges	1045-1000 BC	written late 600s BC
Ruth	11011-931 BC		likely time period of King David
Books of Samuel	930-722 BC		written during reign of Josiah
Books of Kings	560-540 BC
Chronicles	450-425 BC
Ezra	440-430 BC
Nehemiah	430-400 BC
Esther	c. 400 BC

↑ The Anno Mundi calendar was established in the 12th century A.D. Ancient Jews counted by reference, as was typically done in the ancient world ("regnal years"), by the year of a king (the tenth year of Kind David"), noting every 50 years for Jubilees, or "Sabbatical years" of seven years. To calculate the Julian (modern) calendar year using the Hebrew calendar, add 3,760 to the current year before the Jewish new year in September (Rosh Hashanah takes place, depending on the year, somewhere between September 11 and October 4) or 3,761 after the Jewish new year (up to the Jewish new year).