Introduction
Before Christ
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1100-1200
1200-1300
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1600-1700
1700-1800
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Index
Bibliography
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100 - 200 AD
Text History |
World History |
100 AD
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The Apostle John dies a natural death in Ephesus.
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105 AD
The Chinese develop a process for making paper, but this development does not reach the middle east until the 8th century. |
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107 AD
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The Third Persecution of Christians begins under the Roman Emperor Trajan. The emperor would later pull back his persecution having come to discover that the Christians had committed no great crime of consequence.
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115 AD
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A severe earthquake devastates the city of Antioch and Trajan narrowly survives.
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117 AD
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Hadrian succeeds Trajan to become emperor of Rome.
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118 AD
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The Fourth Persecution of Christians begins under the openly homosexual Roman Emperor Hadrian.
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122 AD
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Hadrian's Wall is built in Great Britain.
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125 AD
Papyrus 52 is written and becomes the most extant portion the New Testament available. It contained limited sections from the Gospel of John. |
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130 AD
An attempt is made to write a more literal Greek Old Testament that would ultimately supplant the Septuagint. |
Roman Emperor Hadrian rebuilds Jerusalem (50 years from its destruction) and constructs a temple in his own honor for the patron deity and god of Rome named Jupiter.
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138 AD
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Antonius Pius succeeds Hadrian to become emperor of Rome.
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150-160 AD
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Tertullian is born in Carthage (modern day Tunisia). His life would become connected closely with Montanist theology and early charismatic philosophy about the nature of man and their relationship to God (see 350 AD). He is credited with the now distorted Codex Agobardinus.
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157 AD
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Pius I of Rome dies and is referred to by the author of the Muratorian Fragment (170 AD).
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160 AD
Parchment is developed in Asia Minor through the use of sheep and goat skins. |
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161 AD
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Marcus Aurelius succeeds Antonius Pius to become emperor of Rome.
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166 AD
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A great plague spreads throughout Rome.
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167 AD
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Commodius is made co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius.
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170 AD
The Muratorian Fragment is written with the first known New Testament canon listing. It included the Shepherd of Hermas and a reference to Pius I of Rome (died in 157 AD). |
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Melito, the Bishop of Sardis records the Hebrew Old Testament canon with all protocanonicals excluding the Book of Esther. |
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Melito's work, were it to include the Book of Esther, would be identical to the Old Testament used by most modern-day protestants and Jews. The uniqueness of its content varied from our present text because of certain books that were combined. For instance, the Books of Ezra and Nehemiah were considered to be one book (Esdras, which is Greek for Ezra) or I Samuel, II Samuel, I Kings, and II Kings noted in the single book called Four of Kingdoms.
180 AD
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Commodius succeeds Marcus Aurelius to become emperor of Rome. His reign signifies the beginning of Rome's decline.
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182 AD
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Origen, the future theologian of the Christian Church, is born in Alexandria.
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Origen's most famous work would eventually be the Hexapla (dated in 240 AD), which laid out six different translations of the Old Testament side by side for the purpose of studious examination. Over the years, this work would fade away and no longer be readable by scholars. He would become a notable advocate of allegorical interpretation of Scripture.
192 AD
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Septimus Servius succeeds Commodius to become emperor of Rome.
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