Count back from one eclipse to the first day.
In 763 BC the moon covered the sun over Assyria, and a scribe wrote it down. That one fixed year, the reigns of Israel’s kings and the ages in Genesis are enough to date creation.
The whole span, Creation to AD 135
Each segment is drawn to scale. Choose one to open the timeline there.
The count, step by step
Six steps run from a date fixed by astronomy back to creation. Change a reading and watch the years recalculate.
What the numbers reveal
Overlaps the engine finds in the dates. They recalculate with every reading, so some appear, change or reverse as you switch.
From Creation to the fall of Jerusalem
Time runs left to right. Scroll, swipe or drag to move through it; choose a life or a mark to open it, or an empty year to see everyone alive then.
Layers
Bands and lanes to show. The spine, lives, kings, judges and prophets are always on; each band you add shares the same height, so a few at a time read best.
More lanes
Focus
Show one kind of thing and clear the rest away. Swipe across the timeline’s top strip to move era by era.
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Jump to an era
Key
- Event in Scripture
- Event outside Scripture or in Maccabees
- A moment in the story of Israel (second tier; shown at Generations and Years)
- A battle of Israel
- A miracle or vision
- A moment in a life, on that person’s bar; a gold dot above it marks a miracle
- A life in the genealogies
- Reign in Judah or all Israel
- Reign in the northern kingdom
- A judge of Israel
- A prophet’s ministry
- Ancient tradition, not Scripture
- The 763 BC anchor
- Line of Japheth
- Line of Ham
- Line of Shem
- Not named in Genesis 10
- A find whose reading or date is contested
- Secular date before Babel, outside the reign it names, or a discredited claim
- A thread a tradition draws between two items
Where the spine ends
In AD 70 Titus burned the Second Temple. In AD 135 the last revolt failed and Jerusalem was refounded as a Roman city. The spine stops there.
Every mark between Creation and that year sits on one count, hung from the eclipse of 763 BC. The diaspora and the centuries after come next, in a later build.
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About ScriptureLine
How years are counted
AM, Anno Mundi or “year of the world,” is Adam’s age. Creation is AM 0 and the Flood, in Noah’s 600th year, is AM 1656.
A BC date is creation’s BC year minus the AM year. Ussher’s reading gives the Flood in 2348 BC and Babel in 2247 BC, matching his published dates.
Where the content comes from
Scripture follows the Masoretic text, with every reference shown.
Ancient traditions from 1 Enoch, Jubilees and the Book of Giants are labeled as tradition and never move the count.
Moments in each life, birth to death, and the story of Israel from the plagues to Betar, are counted from the ages and regnal years Scripture gives, so they move with the reading. Where Scripture gives no year the sheet says so and the date reads “c.”. Battles are drawn as crossed swords, miracles as stars.
Kings follow Edwin Thiele’s reconstruction or James Ussher’s Annals, matching the reading you choose. Secular records carry conventional dates and a source link each. Finds that bear on the narrative, from the Merneptah Stele to Bar Kokhba’s letters, carry a status: undisputed, broadly accepted, contested or discredited.
Not built yet
The diaspora and later Jewish and church history, a deep-time lane for the scientific view, and the full search index across thousands of entries.
Finds whose accepted dates fall before Creation on this count, such as Göbekli Tepe (c. 9500 BC), cannot be drawn on the spine and are kept in the project notes.
This is a preview build; the production release will stream the data in time tiles and carry the full set of chapters.
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