Timeline of Sacred Revelation

Timeline of Sacred Revelation

The unfolding of the witnesses across the ages

This timeline sets the witnesses of the project in their broad historical order, that the reader may see how revelation and its records unfolded across the ages. Dates before the common era are approximate, and grow more uncertain the further back they reach.

Age

Approximate Time

Witnesses and Events

Primeval and Patriarchal

beyond dating

The traditions of creation, Adam, Noah, and the patriarchs, preserved later in Genesis, Jubilees, and the Adam writings.

Egypt and the Exodus

c. 1500–1200 BCE

Moses and the giving of the Law; the Egyptian and Mesopotamian wisdom of the surrounding world.

Kingdom and Prophets

c. 1000–600 BCE

David and the Psalms; the prophets of Israel and Judah.

Exile and Return

c. 600–400 BCE

The Babylonian exile; Ezekiel and Daniel; the return and the rebuilding.

Second Temple

c. 300 BCE–70 CE

The Septuagint; Enoch, Jubilees, and the apocalyptic writings; the Dead Sea Scrolls; the deuterocanonical books.

The Time of Yeshua and the Apostles

c. 4 BCE–100 CE

Jesus and the apostles; the Gospels and Letters; the earliest apocrypha.

The Early Church

c. 100–400 CE

The Apostolic Fathers; the New Testament apocrypha; the Nag Hammadi and Hermetic writings; the Targums and the Peshitta.

Late Antiquity

c. 400–800 CE

The Vulgate; the Masoretic work; the Mandaean and Manichaean and Syriac witnesses; the Hekhalot mysticism; the Ethiopian tradition.

The timeline is a guide, not a creed; where the dating of a witness is disputed, that uncertainty is to be kept in mind.