Chronological order of Bible
I know the books of the Bible are not arranged in chronological order. Is there a way in Logos, however, to quickly see the books in the order they were written? I have looked for the Bible books explorer inside Logos but cannot find it.
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Chronological order can mean (a) the order of the events described or (b) the order of the final edit yielding the current contents or (c) the order of the first cut of an initial draft of an element of the current contents. As none of said dates are conclusively known, there is no quick way to see them in order. Useful resources:
- Rhodes, Ron. A Chronological Tour through the Bible. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2018.
- Cavins, Jeff, Tim Gray, and Sarah Christmyer. The Bible Timeline: The Story of Salvation. The Great Adventure Bible Timeline. Ascension Press, 2011.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Does Logos have the Reese Chronological Study Bible?
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Chronological order can mean (a) the order of the events described or (b) the order of the final edit yielding the current contents or (c) the order of the first cut of an initial draft of an element of the current contents. As none of said dates are conclusively known, there is no quick way to see them in order. Useful resources:
- Rhodes, Ron. A Chronological Tour through the Bible. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2018.
- Cavins, Jeff, Tim Gray, and Sarah Christmyer. The Bible Timeline: The Story of Salvation. The Great Adventure Bible Timeline. Ascension Press, 2011.
Cavin's Bible Timeline is the old edition and does not match the newer hardcopy editions, unfortunately.
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I have this in my Logos library
Footsteps Through the Bible: A 52-Week Chronological Reading Plan and Study Referenceby Richard M. GagnonPublisher:John Hunt, 2000
The weekdays are OT and the weekends are NT, so I guess it is flipping back and forth. If you follow all the weekdays, followed by all the weekends, it must be reasonably chronological.
I found less in the store than I expected to find.
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Hmm, so ... I would not be surprised if I am told that there are NO chronological lists that can be sited in a academic paper? We are supposed to be reading about all the chronological debates and compile the data collected by individual "experts" in their limited fields of study?
Is Reese's Bible "folk theology" to the people that use that word when they flunk students?
I'm looking for the general expectations of students. Yes, I know "ask the professor!", but I like having the context of the general expectations before I ask professors.
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I have looked for the Bible books explorer inside Logos but cannot find it
I would not be surprised if I am told that there are NO chronological lists that can be sited in a academic paper?
The Timeline in the Bible Books Explorer is a reasonable representation of what one can cite from 30 overview resources ...
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Thanks for showing me that! I don't have most of the books linked, but have at least one. When i follow the link, it takes me to the book, but not to anything with dates. I guess it is somewhere else in the book.
My bigger concern is that I don't think most of those books can be quoted as an academic source.
I have not been asked to write about chronology or dates, yet, in a sourced paper. I have studied some about the subject, because it interests me. I don't know how to apply the general rules that I have adopted as "appropriate" to chronology.
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I found the drop down menu, instead of just the links. That is a little more helpful.
But this is when the books are WRITTEN, not when the events occurred?
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Is there a way in Logos, however, to quickly see the books in the order they were written?
There is significant disagreement in academic communities about when particular material was written. TimeLine will reveal when your tagged resources claim a date for a particular corpus
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I found the drop down menu, instead of just the links. That is a little more helpful.
But this is when the books are WRITTEN, not when the events occurred?
Yes, and as David indicates, there's discussion about when written.
Event-wise, the average Christian Bible is already in general chronological sequence. In the OT, the prophets follow the historical, but only because they describe events inside the historical (you can't squish them into Kings/Chronicles). And the same in the NT ... epistles describe events inside the gospels/Acts (again not squishable).
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There is significant disagreement in academic communities about when particular material was written. TimeLine will reveal when your tagged resources claim a date for a particular corpus
Yes, and as David indicates, there's discussion about when written.
Event-wise, the average Christian Bible is already in general chronological sequence. In the OT, the prophets follow the historical, but only because they describe events inside the historical (you can't squish them into Kings/Chronicles). And the same in the NT ... epistles describe events inside the gospels/Acts (again not squishable).
I have long been aware of the controversies of dating events, but I am only recently learning of the controversies concerning when books were written. Thanks! Something just clicked in my head that should have clicked earlier. When we paste new information on previously taught lessons and already formed opinions, it takes longer for the new ideas to change the old ideas, instead of merely being added to them. Reading this just hours after reading an introduction to Matthew is finally finally shifting some old ideas that needed to be shifted. Thanks!
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