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What is The Biblical Timeline?

In 325 AD, Eusebius, the Bishop of Caesarea, made what is perhaps the first attempt at creating a unified chronology between Israel and the nations that surrounded them. In the 1,700 years since, archaeology and biblical scholarship have made significant progress in understanding these relationships, but there are still many gaps in our knowledge and unanswered questions.

The Bible contains a significant amount of historical information, but it is not a history book. Most people read the biblical stories as isolated, without context, somehow separate from the larger world in which they occurred. The Biblical Timeline was created to broaden understanding of those stories by placing them firmly in the context of what we know of the history of the Near East. To make them not just stories, but real history, in a visual, chronological journey.

Developed with insights from historians, archaeologists, and biblical scholars, this project seeks to bridge the gap between scholarly understanding and everyday curiosity.