The Bible Timeline Explorer project.
Original work of this project
Chronology follows James Ussher's Annals of the World (1650), with the exceptions noted in each event. Scripture quotations on the timeline are from the World English Bible.
Michael Paul Johnson and volunteers; distributed by eBible.org. ebible.org/web
Public domain
The World English Bible is in the public domain. "World English Bible" is a trademark of eBible.org, used here for the unmodified text.
Michael Paul Johnson and volunteers; distributed by eBible.org. ebible.org/web
Public domain
Public domain. Given in the Library as historical sources for historical and cultural context, not as Scripture. The WEB's own introductions to these books are not included.
Flavius Josephus (about AD 37–100); translated by William Whiston (1737).
Public domain
Whiston's translation is in the public domain: Antiquities of the Jews, The Jewish War, The Life of Josephus, and Against Apion, from public-domain transcriptions. Whiston's footnotes are not included.
R. H. Charles (1912); Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge edition (1917), edited by W. O. E. Oesterley and G. H. Box.
Public domain
Charles's translation is in the public domain; from a public-domain transcription. Given in the Library as a historical source, not as Scripture. Oesterley's introduction and the editors' notes are not included.
Produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. berean.bible
Public domain
Dedicated to the public domain on April 30, 2023. The BSB text is shown unaltered (checked word for word against the official text), and each of its words is linked to the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek word it translates, with transliteration and grammar, from the Berean Interlinear tables.
STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), based on work at Tyndale House, Cambridge. www.STEPBible.org
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Dictionary forms, transliterations, and glosses of Hebrew and Greek words, and the Greek definitions (from Abbott-Smith's Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922), from STEP Bible's data at github.com/STEPBible. Reformatted for this site; definitions from Middle Liddell and TBESH's Hebrew definitions (Online Bible's Abridged BDB) are not included.
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project. github.com/openscriptures/HebrewLexicon
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
The Hebrew definitions come from James Strong's Hebrew dictionary (1890; public domain) in the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project's corrected edition.
MapLibre contributors. maplibre.org
The engine that draws the live map. Version 6.11.2; its license is included with it (lib/maplibre-gl-6.11.2/LICENSE.txt).
Natural Earth (free vector and raster map data). www.naturalearthdata.com
Public domain
Land, rivers, and lakes (1:10m scale), clipped to the Bible lands and simplified; modern reservoirs and canals are left out.
OpenBible.info. www.openbible.info/geo
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
The places named in the Bible, their most likely identifications with a confidence score, and the verses that name them. Coordinates it took from OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Wikipedia, or Palestine Open Maps are not used; a few places use this project's own coordinates instead.
SRTM and GMTED2010 data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey; ETOPO1 from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information; served as Terrarium tiles by the Registry of Open Data on AWS. registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles
Public domain
Used for the map's shaded relief and 3D tilt: the Bible lands at moderate detail, the Holy Land in fine detail.
Copernicus, the European Union's Earth observation programme. land.copernicus.eu
Copernicus data policy (free and open use, including commercial, with credit)
Produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers.
Juan Pablo del Peral, Huerta Tipográfica (The Alegreya Project Authors). github.com/huertatipografica/Alegreya
Licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the license texts are included with the fonts.
The Noto Project Authors. github.com/notofonts/hebrew
Used for Hebrew and Aramaic words. Licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the license text is included with the font.