Friday, 02 November 2007 01:00 | and posted in Old Testament
If you find the order of the OT confusing or even downright weird, then this blog post is for you! We give you a pictoral timeline of when the books in the OT occurred.
The order of the books in the Old Testament, is, well, putting it delicately, a bit weird. You expect to open it up and be able to read from beginning to end and go "Ahhh, I get it." But oh no! The books aren't ordered that way. We like reading stories in a chronological order, but the books of the OT aren't arranged that way. This makes it hard to engage with what's actually going on.
So in a moment of inner-geekiness, we set out to research how the books of the Old Testament fit together chronologically. We then correlated this information into a nifty piece of graphical work which you will find below.*
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* Btw. This is our best guesstimate. Not being historians, speciliasts in ancient literature, Old Testament Scholars or God we've probably got some stuff wrong. But we think this is a good starting point.