Charts & Maps

These are charts and maps to use. Maps require the credit to Biblemapper to be on or with the image. The charts do not have a copyright on them, so feel free to use them.

A note on chronologies here. The farther back that we go towards creation, the more uncertainty there is in some of the dates. Egyptologists have different dates for the chronologies of the various dynasties as do others with the dates of Mesopotamia and other areas. As researches try and figure out dates based on astronomical data, written records, carbon dating and synchronisms between various cultures, they often disagree on the exact dates.

There is also an obvious modification of some of the numbers in Genesis 5 and 11. I have provided three different time lines that come from different textual witnesses and two of those differ in the time that the Israelites were in Egypt. The video above on the right discusses the topic. A good discussion on this subject is done by Henry Smith of ABR in the research project "Genesis 5 to 11 project". An overview of the subject is "Overview of the Chronologies in Gen 5 & 11". The longer chronology seems to be the most likely and as such, the charts and timelines are based on this dating. The modern Bibles normally use the shorter chronology, whereas the early church generally used the longer time line. Either way, Creation happened no more than about 5600 BC or less than about 4000 BC. The Biblical dates seem to be quite accurate as much work has been done on the subject with dates for the Babylonian exile, the building of the temple, the exodus, Abraham and the patriarchs. For example, the Exodus was in 1446 BC and Abraham was born in 2166 BC.

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