Prophetic Timeline

This timeline was developed to aid in teaching the Biblical Studies course "Prophets"

Date	Literary	Figure	Comment
pre 1500BC		(Patriarchs)
13th cent	trads of Exodus	Moses	Exodus
	trads of Wilderness
	trads of Settlement	(Joshua)	Settlement
c.1200	trads of Judges	Deborah	Anarchy
c.1020	trads of Samuel	(Saul)	Monarchy
			Samuel
c.1000-961	J Tradition	(David)	Golden age
	Psalms used in Temple	Nathan
	Stories of David
961-922	Proverbial Wisdom	(Solomon)
922		(Rehoboam Sth)	Divided Kingdom
		(Jeroboam Nth)
		Ahijah(Nth)	Jeroboam's Idolatry
		Man of God (1K13),
	E Traditions begin
869		(Ahab Nth)	Jezebel
		Elijah
		Elisha
		Micaiah ben Imlah
		Joel(?)
783		(Uzziah Sth)
c.746		Amos(Nth)
		Jonah(?)	(book later? 2K14)
742		Isaiah of Jerusalem	c.742-685
740		Hosea(Nth)	c.740-725
725		Micah(Sth)
722	E comes south.	Fall of Nth
715	JE merger	(Hezekiah)	Revival
687	Law Book	(Manasseh)	Apostasy
	Isaiah Collected
c.630		Zephaniah
621	Law Book Found	(Josiah)	Revival
626		Jeremiah	c.626-580
620		Nahum
605		Habakkuk
597		Ezekiel	Fall Jerusalem
586	{DHist		Fall Jerusalem
582	{Deuteronomy		Murder Gedaliah
c.550		Daniel(?)
539		(Cyrus)	Takes Babylon
		2nd Isaiah
538			Return of Jews
520	P Traditions	Haggai	Building temple
		Zechariah
		Trito Isaiah
c.430		Malachi
		Obadiah(?)
c.300		Jonah(?)
		Joel(?)
		2nd Zechariah
167	Daniel Published
c.30AD		John Baptist	Messiah
c.40AD		Agabus	Acts 11&21
c.58AD		Daughters of Phillip	Acts 21

1. 100 - 200 AD Prophecy dies out before growing hierarchy in the Church
2. Roving Prophets/bands of prophets are give a good welcome as long as they didn't outstay welcome according to the Didache.
3. Throughout the OT there were bands of prophets - "sons of the prophets"

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