When was the Bible written?
The books of the Old and New Testaments, and the main apocryphal texts, on a single timeline. Filter, sort, and tap a book to see what tradition and scholarship say.
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All dates are approximate: most books were composed, gathered and reworked over several centuries. Each bar shows the period of writing estimated by scholarship; tradition places some texts earlier. “Apocrypha” here means Jewish and Christian writings outside the Catholic canon.
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Three A4 timelines in the app’s colours (in French).