Timeline of Jesus and Bible
The Ancient Era (BC) c. 1200 BC – 400 BC: The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh / Old Testament) is written, compiled, and finalized in Biblical Hebrew [other]. It does not contain the historical name of Jesus or any mention of Christians, as it focuses entirely on ancient Israelite history. c. 332 BC: Alexander the Great conquers Egypt and Judea, spreading the Koine Greek language across the entire Mediterranean region. c. 305 BC: General Ptolemy I Soter declares himself Pharaoh, establishing the Greek-ruled Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt. c. 285 BC – 246 BC: King Ptolemy II Philadelphus commissions the translation of the Hebrew Torah into Koine Greek for the Great Library of Alexandria . This text, completed over the next two centuries, becomes the Septuagint (LXX) . c. 30 BC: Cleopatra VII dies. The Ptolemaic Kingdom falls, and Egypt is absorbed into the rising Roman Empire . c. 5 BC: Yeshua (Jesus) is born in Judea during the reign of King Herod the Great (who dies in 4 BC). His fami...