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The Bible in World History

A research-grade interactive chronology from the ancient biblical world through Jewish and Christian history, keeping tradition, external evidence, and disputed reconstructions visibly distinct.

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Complete Program ListEvery registered research hub, investigation, teaching workflow, and administrative program.41 programs
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Master Timeline

Filter 148 biblical-period events and open complete evidence dossiers.

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Guided Research Workspace

Storylines, notes, custom timelines, comparison, and shareable states.

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Historical World Simulator

Date-driven map, political snapshots, civilizations, routes, and archaeology.

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Universal Entity Explorer

Unified profiles for 2,066 canonical entities.

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Archaeology and Material Culture Laboratory

Sites, stratigraphy, radiocarbon, provenance, and claim decomposition.

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Textual Witness Laboratory

Witnesses, variation units, original-language forms, and passage context.

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Model and Evidence Laboratory

Model comparison, counterfactual assumptions, uncertainty, and argument maps.

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Biblical Genealogy Explorer

Identity-controlled genealogy networks and pathfinding.

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Source, Evidence, and Publication Workbench

Sources, claims, witnesses, citations, evidence coverage, and exports.

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Passage Explorer

Crosswalk from cited passages to project records.

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Advanced Atlas

Evidence-aware geographic scenarios and route layers.

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Artifact Gallery

Artifacts, inscriptions, manuscripts, media, and provenance.

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Integrity and Identity Center

Semantic validation, collision controls, and duplicate review.

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Matthew and Luke Genealogy Laboratory

Compare the two Gospel genealogies and major reconciliation theories.

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Complete Biblical Genealogy Network

Extended lineages, houses, clans, and repeated-name controls.

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Chronology Foundations Laboratory

Executable regnal-year, BCE/CE interval, and co-regency calculations.

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Kings, Empires, and Prophets

Regnal synchronisms, prophets, empires, and external anchors.

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Historical Ranges

Uncertainty view now connected directly to the V19 laboratory.

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Biblical Literature Through Time

Narrative setting, composition, transmission, and canon clocks.

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Manuscripts, Collections, and Canon

Guided transmission and canon-history sequence linked to V22 witnesses.

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Paul and Acts Chronology

Letter-order models, external anchors, journeys, and imprisonment options.

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Persian–Hellenistic Chronology

Imperial phases from Cyrus through Pompey with synchronized world links.

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Judges Numbers and Chronology

Compare additive, overlapping, and literary-regional models.

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United Monarchy Dossier

Archaeological claim ladder and V23 site evidence matrix.

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Patriarchal Identifications

Compare proposed identities across chronology, geography, language, and evidence.

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Yeshua’s Ministry Chronology

Festival sequence and 30/33 CE dependency comparison.

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Ramesside Royal House and Exodus Audit

Royal succession, Pi-Ramesse, and the Merneptah boundary.

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Early Exodus Dossier

Comparison model and evidence audit for the 1446 BCE proposal.

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Herod Chronology Laboratory

Eclipse, Passover, Josephus, and infancy chronology constraints.

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Birth Chronology Laboratory

Interval arithmetic and large assumption-space testing.

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Crucifixion Chronology

30 and 33 CE Passion chronology and Friday-to-Sunday counting.

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Astronomy and Calendar Laboratory

Sky, eclipse, calendar, and Bethlehem-model tools.

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Teaching and Authoring Workbench

Lessons, quizzes, investigations, worksheets, and local authoring.

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Obsidian Export

Export the research corpus for local notebook use.

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Bibliography Export

Citation and bibliography export formats.

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Research Edition

Printable and portable project edition.

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Administration

Project Governance

Local records, corrections, review queues, and promotion bundles.

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Project Health

Live corpus, release, and integration diagnostics.

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Completion Report

Program status and remaining blockers.

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Changelog

Release history and correction record.

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Correction Submission

Structured correction intake and export.

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Start HerePrimary research entry points for new and returning users.4 programs
Research HubsFull-scale laboratories that use the shared canonical corpus.9 tools
Specialized InvestigationsFocused chronology, archaeology, textual, genealogy, and biographical dossiers.19 dossiers
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Matthew and Luke Genealogy Laboratory

Compare the two Gospel genealogies and major reconciliation theories.

Open →
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Complete Biblical Genealogy Network

Extended lineages, houses, clans, and repeated-name controls.

Open →
V23.1 rebuilt

Chronology Foundations Laboratory

Executable regnal-year, BCE/CE interval, and co-regency calculations.

Open →
Modernized

Kings, Empires, and Prophets

Regnal synchronisms, prophets, empires, and external anchors.

Open →
Integrated

Historical Ranges

Uncertainty view now connected directly to the V19 laboratory.

Open →
Modernized

Biblical Literature Through Time

Narrative setting, composition, transmission, and canon clocks.

Open →
V23.1 rebuilt

Manuscripts, Collections, and Canon

Guided transmission and canon-history sequence linked to V22 witnesses.

Open →
V23.1 rebuilt

Paul and Acts Chronology

Letter-order models, external anchors, journeys, and imprisonment options.

Open →
V23.1 rebuilt

Persian–Hellenistic Chronology

Imperial phases from Cyrus through Pompey with synchronized world links.

Open →
V23.1 rebuilt

Judges Numbers and Chronology

Compare additive, overlapping, and literary-regional models.

Open →
V23.1 rebuilt

United Monarchy Dossier

Archaeological claim ladder and V23 site evidence matrix.

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V23.1 rebuilt

Patriarchal Identifications

Compare proposed identities across chronology, geography, language, and evidence.

Open →
V23.1 rebuilt

Yeshua’s Ministry Chronology

Festival sequence and 30/33 CE dependency comparison.

Open →
Modernized

Ramesside Royal House and Exodus Audit

Royal succession, Pi-Ramesse, and the Merneptah boundary.

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Early Exodus Dossier

Comparison model and evidence audit for the 1446 BCE proposal.

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Herod Chronology Laboratory

Eclipse, Passover, Josephus, and infancy chronology constraints.

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Birth Chronology Laboratory

Interval arithmetic and large assumption-space testing.

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Crucifixion Chronology

30 and 33 CE Passion chronology and Friday-to-Sunday counting.

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Astronomy and Calendar Laboratory

Sky, eclipse, calendar, and Bethlehem-model tools.

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Teaching and PublicationLesson, notebook, bibliography, export, and research-edition workflows.4 programs
Timeline Quick ActionsActions that operate directly on the active homepage timeline.5 actions
Project AdministrationHealth, governance, release, correction, and maintenance systems.5 systems

Geographic overview

Movement across the ancient Near East

A recognizable regional base provides orientation while keeping narrative route reconstructions visibly approximate.

Overview map of the eastern Mediterranean and ancient Near East showing Urkesh, Haran, Babylon, Canaan, Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley, the Nile Delta, Avaris or Pi-Ramesses, Sinai, and the Red Sea. Distinct approximate routes show patriarchal migration, movement into Egypt, an illustrative Exodus route, and the coastal military road described as avoided.
Documented place Patriarchal migration Joseph and Jacob into Egypt Illustrative Exodus route Coastal military road avoided

Named places are geographic locations; route lines are approximate reconstructions and do not claim a surveyed itinerary.

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Biblical master chronology

Timeline controls, biblical-era events, and full dossiers

Every former Deep Timeline dossier remains embedded directly in the biblical chronology, from the patriarchal period through the apostolic era. Jewish and Christian history after the biblical period now has a dedicated timeline page linked below.

Chronology modelCompare complete systems rather than isolated preferred dates.
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c. 1800 BCE–30 CEactive working span

Methodology

How to read this timeline

This project separates four questions that are often collapsed together: what the Bible narrates, what external history independently documents, whether a historical setting is compatible with the narrative, and whether a proposed identification is actually demonstrated.

Multidimensional evidence profiles

Every event is now evaluated separately for its historical core, date, identification, narrative detail or scale, and source control. A documented historical setting may coexist with a disputed biblical identification or a model-dependent date.

The earlier single confidence label remains available for filtering and backward compatibility, but it is no longer expected to answer every evidentiary question.

Chronological numbers

Dates and durations are classified as exact external anchors, secure or approximate ranges, model-derived dates, relative narrative sequences, rounded traditional reigns, or schematic literary numbers. The project therefore does not treat every occurrence of forty as an exact stopwatch total.

Primeval Period boundary

Genesis 1–11 remains textually undated on the master chronology. The separate Primeval Period research page examines human origins, prehistoric violence, flood traditions, and Mesopotamian urbanism while distinguishing established context from theological interpretation and speculative correlation.

Model switching

Changing chronology models is not cosmetic. It changes dates and interpretations for Joseph, Moses, the Exodus, Israel’s settlement, Herod, and the birth of Jesus where appropriate.

Historical ranges and assumption firewall

Every event separates the plotted project coordinate from the wider historical range the evidence can bear. Major project hypotheses list their dependencies, what could weaken them, and which conclusions survive if they are rejected. The Historical Minimum model provides an externally constrained baseline without replacing the adopted reconstruction.

Post-biblical continuation

Events after the Bar Kokhba Revolt are presented on the dedicated Post-Biblical Jewish & Christian History timeline. Jewish history, Christian history, and shared context remain distinct overlapping tracks rather than one continuous institution.

Artifact evidence overlay

The main timeline can optionally display key or all linked artifacts. Marker placement indicates a curated chronological relationship; each marker retains a direct, corroborative, contextual, textual, or disputed label and links to the full Artifact Gallery dossier.

Textual and source control

Critical-edition records distinguish directly inspected witnesses from specialist-reported locators, while claim provenance keeps evidence, interpretation, inference, conclusion, and objection separate.

Early Exodus position

The c. 1446 BCE chronology remains available only as a rejected comparison model. The project concludes that it is premise-driven and historically untenable. If the Exodus tradition preserves a substantial historical departure from Egypt, the only setting retained by this project is the reign of Ramesses II in the mid-thirteenth century BCE. This remains a conditional project judgment rather than a claim that all scholarship recognizes only one possibility.

Research library

Bibliography and source audit

Browse the audited source library below or open the current unified workbench for verified metadata, structured locators, evidence coverage, Chicago, SBL, BibTeX, CSV, Obsidian, and print-ready exports.

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