| PALESTINE (JUDAH)
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| Jehoiakin, son of Jehoiachim (2 Kings 24:6) r. 598 BC
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| [1]
| Nebuchadnezzar (2 Kgs 24-25) r. 605-562 BC
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| [4]
| | [2]
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| Zedekiah, r. 597-586 BC |
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| (2 Kgs 25:26; Jer 42:14;43:7) | (2 Kgs 25:1)
| (2 Chr 36:20; Jer 52:28) |
| EGYPT |
[3]
| BABYLON |
| c. 586 BC | (2 Kgs 25:12,22; Jer 40:11; Eze 33:27)
| c. 586 BC |
| DIASPORA BEGINS | "remnant"
| DIASPORA BEGINS |
| | [5]
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| | (2 Chr 36:20,23) |
| | PERSIA
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| | Cyrus |
| | r. 538-529 BC |
| | [6]
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| Ezra and Nehemiah | Return from exile
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| (Ezra 7:28; Neh 2:11) | 538-445 BC
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| 440 BC | (Ezra 1:5)
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| [7]
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| Alexander the Great | |
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| r. 334-332 BC | | |
| (1 Mc 1:1-4) | | |
| founded Alexandria in 332 BC |
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| Alexandria is capital of Egypt |
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| ALEXANDRIA
| PALESTINE | |
| [9] Additional Revelation
| [8] Biblical silence
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| DIASPORA continues | DIASPORA continues
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| 3rd - 1st centuries BC | 3rd - 1st centuries BC
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| SEPTUAGINT ("LXX"): [10]
| HEBREW CANON collected. |
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| Greek translation. | Hebrew a dying language; dead by 135 AD.
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| Greek the common language. | Aramaic the common language.
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| CHRISTIAN ERA
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| c. 100 AD | |
| NT writers worked with LXX; 300 of 350 OT quotes in the NT are from LXX; Unfixed canon.
| | Council of Rabbis at Jamnia collected a Hebrew canon of 22/24 books; perhaps pressured by needs of Apostolic Church; Unfixed canon.
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| c. 200 AD: [11]
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| Fixed canon: end of 2nd century; |
| Fixed canon: end of 2nd, early 3rd century.
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| Melito of Sardis, c. 170 AD |
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| ALEXANDRIAN CANON
| | PALESTINIAN CANON |
| 45/46 books | | 39 books (Lamentations was considered a part of Jeremiah)
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| [12]
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| 383-384 AD: Latin the common language
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| LATIN VULGATE OT
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| Rome: St. Jerome | |
| supplied from the Greek the parts not included in the Jewish canon.
| | based directly on the Hebrew text of the OT as preserved by the Jews
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| [13]
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| 393 AD: Council of Hippo (North Africa): approved list of OT and NT canon, the same as the Council of Trent list.
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| 397 AD: Council of Carthage (North Africa): approved list of OT and NT canon, the same as the Council of Trent list.
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| [14]
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| 1452-1455 AD: GUTENBERG BIBLE
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| Canon of the Council of Trent, 1563, Roman Catholic
| | Canon of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformers, 1529
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