Introduction
Before Christ
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100-200
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Index
Bibliography
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Introduction
The journey of history, no matter the period of time one is referring, has an undeniable essence of human life. Often times, in our efforts to look at history objectively or without bias, we overlook the very people who lived, the very events that affected those lives, or the very details themselves if they do not adhere to our directive intent. In so doing, the majority who glimpse into the past of a situated timeline fall short of honest investigation and careful consideration. This Timeline of Biblical Text holds no different a dilemma.
Neither history nor any other cognitive discipline can be objective if ‘objectivity’ entails such impossibilities as certain truths or exact correspondence of concepts to some hidden reality, or such unlikely, undesirable, or absurd requirements as complete neutrality, impersonality, and detachment. If it has any bearing on history at all, ‘objectivity’ means that the clearly cognitive (truth-claiming) parts of a historical narrative must specifically refer to and be inferable from some perceptual evidence of a public sort, and that the cognitive claim must go no further. If it does go further—if one gives evidential weight to nonpublic, personal, intuitive data or to preferences and wishes—then a purported history is not objective, even if it proves later to have been more valid than a more restricted, misleading, but evidentially disciplined account. In this practical sense, objectivity is a criterion for establishing true propositions, but it is not a synonym for truth.
-- Paul K. Conkin & Roland N. Stromberg, Heritage and Challenge: The History and Theory of History
Taking into account the idea of a “disciplined account” of history, the Timeline of Biblical Text (TBT) has been developed initially as an Early Edition so as to garner 12-months of continued study, intellectual input, public research, spiritual accountability, and formidable cooperation with those of like-minded interest or investment. Upon closure of the Early Edition in 2007, such conclusions will not imply a present state of having arrived, but instead, of simply following through with the necessity of accountable practice in historical study.
Each century page of the TBT is designed to serve a specific frame of time concentrated within the boundaries of significant or commonly recognized world events, people who have affected those world events, and most specifically, the textual issues pertaining to Biblical text. Within this Early Edition TBT, many of the noted points have been heightened where others have not been given their due credit. This is recognized to be a fault of personal deadlines where further hours, days, or weeks would have permitted greater extensive detail. The primary goal of Early Edition development was to provide the project to the accountable public within a fair time of year that would allow its author to move forward with some additional studies. As a result, many areas that could be in greater intellectual color have been soured with emptiness.
These section blanks are the very reason that you, the reader, have access to the TBT beyond using it as a basic research guide. If indeed you are a historian, a student, a Berean, or simply one who shares a love for a particular period of time covered in these pages, please do not let this youthful mind of history go unchecked. All contact information is available at the bottom of each century page and upon noting something that doesn’t seem honorable, correct, or balanced, it would be a tremendous blessing to hear of your input.
Beyond all hope of correction and potential for many updates prior to the 2007 First Edition release, may the Early Edition provide your studies and curiosities a worthy historical account. For even if such worthiness is the encouragement to dust off another study for comparative balance, then may it do so to the glory of our Lord in this age of grace.
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