[Greg]

We are currently doing History: Antiquity, and would like to keep a timeline to go along with the videos… but are unsure of dates to put with events. Is anyone aware of a timeline or date resource that corresponds with a young earth timeframe for this class? Thanks!

[jmdenby2]

I’m wondering the same.

[Ben Crist]

Hi there! Can you tell me a little more how you would like to use a timeline? Dave usually references the date using BC/AD within the videos themselves. Are you looking to put dates on the lesson/lecture titles for yourself?

Here’s a timeline that is a good general resource for families. It isn’t explicitly Christian, but only goes back to 4,000 BC. Here’s an interesting article referring to Bishop Ussher’s date of creation at 4004 BC, from the folks at Answers in Genesis.

But as I wrote above, Dave puts many dates in his videos, and we almost always include those as on-screen text for the student. Interested to hear more about what you are looking for!

[Greg]

Thank you for your response. We are still in the first half of the antiquity series, and while there have been some dates givin for extra biblical historical figures, much of what the videos have touched on so far are old testament characters and stories… but unless we are consistently missing it, no dates are given for these. So, trying to figure out where these old testament stories and people fit in with other world history is tricky. If there were a handout to go with each weeks lesson that listed the people covered and their dates (or best guesses) would be really helpful to be able to then capture the things we are learning into a timeline or book of centuries.

[Ben Crist]

I am asking Dave for what he recommends and will respond back. We don’t have additional handouts prepared, unfortunately.

[Ben Crist]

Hi Greg! I connected with Dave and his response is below:

Antiquity timelines are quite tricky and have eluded scholars for as long as they’ve been studied. I do give several dates in the study, but I deliberately do not commit to dating too many things. There is no widely agreed upon system for coordinating Biblical, Egyptian, and Assyrian dating systems. There are a lot of attempts but they seem to each have their own tweaks.

I do cover chronology in Lesson 4.1, which gives several proposed dates working backwards from the benchmarks of Solomon’s death to the beginning of Temple construction to the Exodus. From there I give potential dates for the patriarchs, flood, and creation based on Masoretic and LXX texts. There are also dates throughout lessons, which increase in frequency as we get to the Greeks and Romans.

[Greg]

Thank you.