These 500 year periods are a convenient way to begin to understand the general chronology of the people and events of Biblical times.

Before birth of Abraham	prior to 2000 b.c.e.
Birth of Abraham	2000 b.c.e.
Birth of Moses	1500 b.c.e.
REIGN of King David	1000 b.c.e.
Birth of Daniel	500 b.c.e.
Birth of Jesus	1 c.e.
Christianity declared official religion of Holy Roman Empire	800 c.e.

Worksheet 4 - Assignment                                                 25 points 

Simplified Bible Timeline of the People and Events of the Torah and the Nevi’im (Prophets)

Directions

• This project asks you to correctly place the 54 biblical people and events listed at the bottom of this page into one of the three time periods listed below

• I need you to ALPHABETIZE within each section  - e.g. all names in the section Abraham and his family would be in alphabetical order. 

• Looking for a timeline of old testament people and events on the internet is probably less time consuming than looking through your Bible for each story/person

• If you are in the online section of this class, you have the option of using either Portable Document Format or using Excel spread sheet for your format.

• The answers for this worksheet are NOT in the class lectures (PowerPoints).

• Provide the URL of any internet source you use at the TOP of your submitted worksheet.

• The following links have been recommended by previous students 

  • http://timeline.biblehistory.com/home

  • www.biblehub.com

  • www.biblegateway.com

Ancestors of Abraham Before birth of Abraham	prior to 2000 b.c.e.
Abraham and his family Birth of Abraham - ends with birth of Moses	2000 b.c.e.-1501 b.c.e
Time of Moses and the Conquest of Canaan Birth of Moses through David becoming king	1500 b.c.e. -1000 b.c.e.

 

  

For clarity 

-The listed Biblical people need to be placed in the section where they spent the majority of their lives. So even if Miriam was born a bit before Moses, she belongs in the Moses section.

-Stories need to be placed in the time section of their setting. So in the past, student found online that the Creation Story was written in the 3rd time period, but obviously that story takes place in the first time period and needs to be placed there.

 

1. Aaron (brother of Moses)

2. Abel

3. Abraham is called to sacrifice his son Isaac

4. Abraham enters into a covenantal relationship with Yahweh

5. Achan’s sin

6. Adam and Eve

7. Battle of Jericho

8. Benjamin

9. Cain

10. Caleb

11. Conquest of the Promised Land by Israelites

12. Creation stories

13. Crossing of  Red Sea

14. Deborah

15. Delilah

16. Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

17. Esau

18. Exodus from Egypt

19. Flood story

20. Garden of Eden and the 'Fall from Grace'

21. Gideon

22. Golden Calf made to be worshiped

23. Goliath

24. Hagar

25. Hannah

26. Isaac

27. Ishmael

28. Jacob

29. Jacob’s sons are born, and they become the heads of the tribes of Israel (Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin)

30. Jephthah

31. Joseph, son of Jacob, is sold into slavery in Egypt

32. Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, are each given a share of land in Canaan that is equal to the share given only to the 1st born male of the other 11 sons of Jacob. Thus, Joseph's family get a double share of the land in Canaan.

33. Joshua

34. Joshua given the leadership of the Israelites

35. Judges

36. Laban

37. Leah

38. Lot

39. Methuselah  

40. Miriam (sister of Moses)

41. Moses

42. Noah

43. Original sin in Garden of Eden

44. Rachel

45. Rahab

46. Rebekah

47. Reuben

48. Ruth

49. Samson

50. Sarah

51. Ten Commandments are given as a covenant between Yahweh and the Israelites 

52. Tower of Babel

53. Wandering of Israelites in the Wilderness for 40 years

54. Zipporah