Timeline of Significant Biblical Dates

By Haydon Abela
  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Stories of patriarchs begin during this period

  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1550 BCE

    Jacob's migration from Canaan to Egypt

  • 1292 BCE

    The birth of Moses

  • Period: 1290 BCE to 1225 BCE

    Period of the Exodus

  • Period: 1025 BCE to 930 BCE

    Period of the United Hebrew Monarchy; period of Saul and David

  • Period: 930 BCE to 721 BCE

    Hebrew people split into Judah and Israel

  • 700 BCE

    Compilation of the "J" texts of Genesis

  • Period: 550 BCE to 500 BCE

    Work of the "Priestly" writers on the first five books of the Bible

  • Period: 538 BCE to 333 BCE

    Reestablishment of Israel as a Persian province

  • Period: 250 BCE to 100 BCE

    Translation of the Pentateuch into Greek

  • 4 BCE

    Birth of Jesus

  • 30

    The crucifixion of Jesus

  • Period: 35 to 65

    Paul

  • Period: 50 to 64

    Paul's Epistles

  • 65

    Nero's persecution of Christians in Rome