History of the Bible: by John Kitto 1871
Introduction
First five books of Moses are also called the Pentateuc. Genesis is comprised of 2,369 years ending with the death of Joseph. Bereshith called Genesis is also the book of the just, as well as the book of Jasher.
Exodus is a collection of 145 years from Josephs death until the building of the tabernacle.
Leviticus ‘ time line is one month and a half from the tabernacle, to Gods command to number the people.
The book of Numbers is a span of 39 years from the second month and second year after Israel left Egypt, up until the eleventh month and 40th year on wards from leaving Egypt.
Deutoronomy stretches from the first day of the 11th month to approximately the first day of the 12th month.
Joshua consists of 17 years.
Judges equivocates the time from Joshua to Samson.
Ruth
Book of Kings: First and Second Samuel are considered the first two books of the Kings. Prior to first and second Kings commonly called third and forth books of the Kings.
Starts with Samuel first book of which begins at 2848 to 2949, 101 years. Detailing lives of Eli, Samuel, and Saul.
Second: 40 year reign of David.
Third: Reign of Solomon to the division of the 4 kings of Judah(Samaria) and 8 kings of Israel.
Fourth: 16 kings of Judah and 12 kings of Israel.
Chronicles (Perhaps written by Ezra)
Book of Ezra recounts the history of the Jews returning to Judea from Babylonian captivity from 3468 - 3550. BC
Nehemiah details the reestablishment of Jerusalem and the temple and worship of God comprised of a 31 year span time line; from the 20th year of Artaxeres Longimanus to Darius Nothus ending at 3581. BC
The book of Esther. Jews delivered from Persian captivity.
Job Oldest written book
Psalms. Some composed before, during and some after David.
Proverbs authored by Solomon consisting of moral sentences and precepts.
Ecclesiastes demonstrates the vanity of the world; second work penned by Solomon
Song of songs third work of king Solomon.
Prophets
Greater: Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Jeremiah...,
Lesser: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Between the greater and lesser prophets are the Lamentations of Jeremiah which describes the prophet accounts of the destruction of Jerusalem and captivity of the people.
The earliest prophecy is from king Uzziah of Judah. Jeroboam II being king of Israel during Uzziahs prophecy. About 200 years prior to captivity not long after Joash had slain Jehoiada’s son Zechariah in the court of the temple.
Hosea was first of the writing prophets around the same time as Joel, Amos, Obadiah published their prophecies.
Afterward Isaiah wrote his but his book is placed first. Which is about the advent of Christ and the largest prophecy book.
The spirit of prophecy continued 40 years during the second temple. Malachi is the seal of the prophecy.
Collection of books titled the New Testament
*New testament begins with the death of Jesus Christ beginning in Acts 10
Enter the 4 gospels and acts of the apostles. Being character/narrative of events.
Pauline epistles are the basis of Christians church age doctrine.
Revelation is the last and prophetic book post church age. Penned by St. John at the Isle of Patmos.
Acts was perhaps penned by Luke and dictated by Paul 27 years after Christ is risen.
Gospel of Matthew and apostle of Jesus Christ and Jewish publican written around 8 years after the ascension of Jesus Christ.
Gospel of Mark was most likely one of the 70 disciples of Jesus Christ. Accounting the miracles of the Lord Jesus Christ.
John “the disciple whom Jesus loved” was an apostles as was Matthew. He was the son of Zebedee a fisher at Galilee brother of James who was also one of the 12 apostles. John was the only apostle that died of natural causes and wasn’t martyred.
Luke the beloved physician considered probably a disciple along with Mark. Along with Paul imprisoned in Rome authored Colossians and Philemon..
The 14 Epistles of Paul: Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philipians, Colossians, Thessalonians 1-2, Timothy 1-2, Titus, Philemon and Hebrews.
Chronological order of time written on page 29 spans between AD 54-68. Except John written between AD 96-100.
Further historical notes of interest
The old testament has 22 canonical books, the same as the letters in the Hebrew alphabet. They combine Ruth and Judges as well as Lamentations and Jeremiah. Totaling 24 books.
Jews would incorporate the letter yod three times in the alphabet to equivocate the alphabet to the 24 books. In Chaldee(non Hebrew Jewish learned language in captivity.) 3 yods are used to represent Jehovah. But Jews seen it as a representation of the Godhead in Christianity nd only use 2 yods... Page 30
Cardinal Hugo perhaps invented separation of verses and conceptualized the concordance. Rabbi Nathan in 1445 printed verse division and a concordance using numbers rather than Hugo’s letter system.
1559 Robert Stephens was first to divide the New Testament into verses and composed the first New Testament concordance printed by his son Henry.
Page 33 details of how Torah is written with what ink, leather and ordinances...
The Egyptian was able to read the scriptures in Acts due translation in Chaldee for Jews who lost their language in captivity so they could understand.
Hebrew is an Oriental language meaning proper names are significant words. *Examples on page 35.
From Adam to Noah(not the line of Cain):Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah.
In English these ten named form this sentence: Man, appointed, miserable, lamenting, the God of glory, shall descend, to instruct, his death send to, the afflicted, consolation.
Genesis contains 1,534 verses middle verse being “And by the sword thou shalt live.”
After the destruction of the temple the pronunciation of Yod, He, Wau, He is entirely lost. Page 42*
The 2nd book of kings describes the scism between Jews and the Samaritans when Jeroboam set up golden calves to be worshiped at Dan in bethel. Omri hence built samaria which began the separation of Israel and Judah.
Samariah became a province containing tribes of Ephraim, and half tribe of Manasseh,
During Hezekiahs reign of Judah Samaria was taken by Shalmahezer and ten tribes were carrie dinto captivity. Page 42*
The Samaritans only received the first 5 books titled the pentateuc in the Old Testament.
Ptolemy Lagos carried numbers of Jews and Samaritans to Egypt to contest their temples Samaria lost favor and were executed in the year 109BC. John Hyreanus destroyed the city and temple of the Samaritans.
In 25BC king Herod built them a city and temple, they continued to worship on mount Gerizim.
Page 55 KJV translators
Page 56 Apocrypha.
End of introduction [total of 63 pages]- Old Testament history 436 pages, New Testament 152 pages, Chronological table of the bible(dispensation and writings of events), Synchronical table of the kings(times of rule), Table of money/weights/measurments, and Index. To be continued...