Old Testament History
Old Testament History
Part One
Old Testament History
What’s the point?
Old Testament History
Old Testament History
“I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you
are dead.”
- Revelation 3:1b
Old Testament History
Old Testament History
Old Testament History
Old Testament History
A Brief Overview
Old Testament History
A Brief Overview
Old Testament History
Primeval History
Old Testament History
Primeval History
Archaeological Stratification
Ancient Technology
Old Testament History
Primeval History
“Now Adam knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain....”
- Genesis 4:1
“When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness and
after his own image and named him Seth.”
- Genesis 5:3
“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in
our own image, after our likeness. And
let them have dominion over the over
the fish of the sea, the birds of the air,
over the livestock and everything that creeps on the earth.”
- Genesis 1:26
“I will bless those who bless you,
and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
- Genesis 12:3
“When you arrive, look for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi.”
- 2 Kings 9:2
“The watchman reported, ‘He reached them, but he is not coming back. He drives like Jehu the son of Nimshi.’”
- 2 Kings 9:20
“A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided into four rivers. The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah where there is gold....The second river is the Gihon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Cush.”
“The name of the third river is the Tigris which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth is the Euphrates.”
- Genesis 2:10-14
Eden?
“Then Cain went away from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.”
- Genesis 4:16
Eden?
Nod?
“...and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.”
- Genesis 8:4
“From these [Shem, Ham, and Japheth] the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language,
by their clans, in their nations.”
- Genesis 10:5
“Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who live in tents and have livestock. His brother’s name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the lyre and the pipe. Zillah also bore Tubal-Cain. He was the forger of all instruments of bronze and iron.”
- Genesis 4:20-22
“Come, let us build for ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”
- Genesis 11:4
Ancient Ziggurat
3000 – 500 BC
Old Testament History
Primeval History
The Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire
Akkadian Manishtushu Inscription
Indus Valley Civilization
Indus Valley Civilization
Indus Valley Civilization
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt
Memphis, capital of the Old Kingdom when the pyramids were built.
Ancient Sumeria
Ancient Sumeria
Ancient Sumeria
Ancient Jericho
Ancient Jericho
An 8,000 year old defensive tower in ancient Jericho
Old Testament History
The Age of the Patriarchs
(c. 2,250 – 1,850 BC)
How can we date the Patriarchs accurately?
of the Temple
“In the Four hundred and eightieth year after the people of Israel came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel...he began to build the house of the LORD.”
- I Kings 6:1
How can we date the Patriarchs accurately?
of the Temple (966 BC)
How can we date the Patriarchs accurately?
“The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of the 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.”
- Exodus 12:40-41
How can we date the Patriarchs accurately?
“Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong so that the land was filled with them. Now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph.”
- Exodus 1:6-8
How can we date the Patriarchs accurately?
How can we date the Patriarchs accurately?
Old Testament History
The Age of Abraham
(c. 2,250 – 2,050 BC)
“So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. He was seventy-five years old when Abram departed from Haran...and they
set out for the land of Canaan.”
- Genesis 12:4
“Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.”
- Genesis 12:6
“From [Shechem] he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east...and Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.”
- Genesis 12:8-9
“Now there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there.”
- Genesis 12:10
“So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre at Hebron.”
- Genesis 13:18
“In the days of Amraphel king of shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorleomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela.”
- Genesis 14:1-3
Battle of the �Valley of Siddim�(Genesis 14)
Possible location of Sodom and Gomorrah
Old Testament History
The Age of Isaac and Jacob
(c. 2,150 – 1,900 BC)
Isaac lived near Beersheva in the Negev.��(Abraham lived near Hebron)
Isaac lived near Beersheva in the Negev.��(Abraham lived near Hebron)
“And Sarah died at Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron)....And Abraham said to the Hittites, ‘I am a sojourner and foreigner among you. Give me property among you as a burying place for my dead....entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah at the end of his field.”
- Genesis 23:1 & 8
Old Testament History
The Age of Joseph
(c. 1,986 – 1,876 BC)
“Pharoah called Joseph’s name Zaphenath Paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.”
- Genesis 41:45
Old Testament History
Old Testament History