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3200 BCE
Mesopotamia, Invention of Writing
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2510 BCE
Egypt, rule of Shepseskaf
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2091 BCE
Haran, God makes covenant with Abram
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2070 BCE
Israel, Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed
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Period: 2050 BCE to 1900 BCE
Israel, Life of Jacob
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Period: 2000 BCE to 430 BCE
Middle East/NE Africa, Old Testament
Starting from the birth of Abraham
source: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oldtestament/context/
https://www.matthewmcgee.org/ottimlin.html -
1910 BCE
Canaan--> Egypt, Joseph sold into slavery
Brothers sold Joseph into slavery out of hate and jealousy, Joseph ends up in Egypt as a slave but later works for Potiphar
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Period: 1910 BCE to 1900 BCE
Egypt, Joseph works for Potiphar
Joseph was in Egypt after being sold, and after an incident with potiphar's wife, he ends up in prison. source: https://amazingbibletimeline.com/blog/q27_joseph_how_long_in_prison/ -
1880 BCE
Mount Moriah, Abraham almost sacrifices Isaac
We see the events parallel to those of Jesus's death, in the sense that God gave his one and only son to die as a sacrifice in place of our sins. In this story, Abraham had to sacrifice his beloved son as a sacrifice to God to prove his faith. Through this story, God foreshadows what was to come and proves that God knew what he was doing, even from the start. In the end, God provided a ram in place of Isaac, like Jesus would later do for us.
https://amazingbibletimeline.com/timeline_online/ -
1850 BCE
Land of Canaan and Arabia, The invention of the Hebrew Alphabet
known as semitic scripts - Aleph Bet
Pictographic writing written from right to left
no punctuation/capitalization, different grammar rules
no verses in the Bible source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hebrew-alphabet -
1800 BCE
Canaan, Ishmael born
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1766 BCE
Jacob typology part 1
Genesis 27:22 (Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”) can be an example of Jesus taking the weight of our sins. Jesus is still Jesus, but the sin that he carries is not his. Instead, it is all of our sins.
source:https://study.com/academy/answer/how-old-was-isaac-when-he-blessed-jacob-in-the-bible.html -
1445 BCE
Israel, the writing of Gensis
- written by Moses (sorta)
- Ch.1-11 are impossible to "date", but Abram/Abraham is born around 2166b.c.
- genre and literary style: 2 historical narratives and a few passages of poetry and some genealogy
- themes and structure: creation, death, flood, covenant, providence
- ch. 1-11: creation, fall, flood Babel
- ch. 12-50: abraham, isaac, jacob, joseph
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1300 BCE
Egypt, Egyptians build a canal connecting the Nile River and the Red Sea
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500 BCE
Africa, the use of oral tradition
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Period: 5 BCE to 98
Bethlehem/Middle East, New Testament
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1 CE
Jacob typology part 2
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Calvary, Golgotha Jesus' Cruxifiction
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44
Middle East/ Mediterranean, Paul's first missionary journey
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49
Asia & Europe, Paul's second missionary journey
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52
Middle East, Paul's third missionary journey
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80
Rome, The colosseum opens
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Japan, June 7th 2004
source:birth certificate -
Singapore, Modern day impact on me
Genesis 25:18 - And they lived in hostility toward[b] all the tribes related to them. (about ishamel's descendants)
When I was a kid, my grandmother did not like Muslims and Arabics in Singapore, and there were some kids at my school who didn't want to hang out with them. -
Hong Kong, Joined ICS
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Syria, Abrahamic covenant fulfilled today
He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward all his brothers.”
Can be proved the world and it's feuds with Syria. The mosque shooting in New Zealand is also an example of people being against Ishmael's descendants.