I remember my Jewish Studies professor trying to explain this back in the intro classes of my degree...boy do I wish he had this chart because it would have been so easier and clearer than how he did. Thank you Matt!

At this point Matts biblical lessons could be made into an intro-level university course.

I got so shocked when I saw this in my notifications because I had just finished rewatching both the Biblical Genealogy and Who Wrote the Bible Series. Thank you for revisiting the series and for making my day once again with your educational charts and videos! ❣️

The bible really is the most ambitious crossover event in history, move aside Marvel

The series on who wrote the Bible has been really a great effort and one I enjoyed A LOT, would love if you made some deep dive on some books

I recently re-watched all the episodes, thank you for this great series!

Your narration style is so clear and easy to follow! 😊

Your work is wonderfull. Those charts are real gems of knowledge. Thanks

Such an incredible overview. I've learnt SO much about my own religion from this channel, its actually incredible! Thank you Matt, as always!

Thank you for this series and all your other videos as well. I have dyslexia so I find your presentations very informative and helpful. I wish I had your charts back when I was teaching history. They would've been so useful for my students.

I always enjoy your presentations, they are well researched, well presented and UNBIASED. Really appreciate that! Keep it up! As you always emphasise the difference between legend myth and actual history.

Your WWTB videos inspired me to start reading the Bible! I've just finished the Apocrypha and moved onto the New Testament! I knew the series was over, so I was very excited to see an Episode 8 uploaded! Thank you for all that you do, Mark!

Thank you again. Absolutely fascinating.

Very nice. Been waiting for this.

Awesome that this series is continuing

Your charts are amazing x

I just finished watching the series a few days ago. You have the best timing! It'd be really cool to see more videos about other theories for the same question, like the theory of Professor Israel Knohel. He suggests that the origin of the Bible and the Israelites is from a number of places in modern day Syria, the Hyskos of Egypt, as well as the existing Canaanite population.

I am so happy I come across your Channel I am learning a lot Sir, thank you so much.

I LOOOOVE THIS SERIES. I ALSO REALLY *LOVE* THE SOUND OF YOUR VOICE 😃😄 ...fangirling out of the way. I WOULD BE SUPER interested to have you narrate a version of this chart's introduction, which further highlights which Suras in the Quran refer to which of these bible books, from which times, and which authors, and which sources. Do you know to what extent each Sura relates to one respective bible story, or do they mix them up and rearrange them? Also how do we know of the exact origin times these earliest books came from, considering we have no surviving originals/samples?

😍😍😍 I come back to this series so much this is fantastic

This is exactly what I was looking for when you released the "Who Wrote the Bible" series. Thanks Matt!

Awesome content, I love this channel.

Really useful summary. I was vaguely aware of the sequencing (especially of the New Testament), but this is a great visualization that will help many understand how the Bible(s) were put together.

I love the Bible videos! Keep it up!

So fascinating! I wish I could remember all of this! 🤦‍♀️

I put something similar together (to help with my own understanding) but your format is so much clearer. I might just have to get one!

Great content 👍.

Best vids on YT. I have watched them all wayyyyyy too many times.

Nice summary that ties together at a macro level your previous works. All of these should be useful to students of the bible as well as the historical events that were taking place at the time that the books were written. Thank you.

I can’t wait for episode 9 of this ongoing series.

Great chart! As always. It took me years to understand this stuff. How are you a pro on every subject?

Great summary! As a suggestion for the future, you should take a look at the relationships between the Church Fathers - you could potentially make a chart with their descent from the Apostles and the connections between them, highlighting areas of major doctrinal agreement. I suppose you could also do the same with Jewish Rabbis instead, showing the transmission of doctrine and authority?

This is really cool.

Nice vid

New subscriber, big fan!

I like this representation of the papyri of the earliest parts of the New Testament compared to an earlier video that referenced these objects. You give a good visual representation here.

Thanks very much for a very concise yet otherwise complicated chronology of the Holy Bible. Just wonder if any plans on a chart over the Gnostic Bibles. Or, could one be already out? Thanks again!

You should do a video on the apocrypha part of this chart as well

Liked and shared.

Great charts and would love to buy some but freight cost is prohibitive. When will you modernise and make PDF versions available for purchase?

Brilliant series. Love your work! If you ever need a new project, could you do something similar on dharmic (Hindu Jain Buddhist Sikh) texts?

I'm buying this freaking chart. It's going on my wall.

Thank you Matt. 🙏👍 I suggest you create videos about geologic time scale from hadean eon to meghalayan age of holocene epoch of quaternary period of cenozoic era of pharanezoid eon. 🙂 And also about the current debated epoch, anthropocene epoch.

I have watched the series several times, especially the first video. They are so educational as well as entertaining. Thank you, Matt. Have you ever looked into the "Genesis and the Moses Story" view of who wrote the pentateuch?

Wow. This is ambitious... I'll watch it later in peace and quiet...

Hi, I would like to buy a poster for a Venezuelan school, are there plans to sell posters in Spanish? Kind regards

Love your videos on the Abrahamic religions so far! Which begs the question, are there any other monotheistic religions in the world that originated outside of the middle east and are not Abrahamic? I don't know if this kind of topic is relevant to your channel's content but I would love for you to do a video on it!

you are one SMART dude.!!!!!!!!! i wish i had 1/10th of your vast knowledge.!!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Hi Matt, I was a member of WWCG too from 1981-1995. Although I have some lifelong friends…it was so mind controlling. Thank you for these videos. Shalom

Wonderful video thank you so much. It might be worth pointing out that modern scholarship suggests a connection between the books of Mark and John. That is that John was aware of Mark and though didn't "borrow" a lot from Mark his Gospel was likely written as something to be read alongside Mark.

Can you do a chart of the royal families of microstates please.

Thanks for sharing this. It would be incredibly interesting to know more about the old remaining scriptures, what they contain and what's missing, and where they are kept. Are any of them shown in museums?

what a coincidence, this video showed up while i was rewatching your video on the Book of Mormon

Honestly the fact that all these different documents over centuries happened to come together and translated to thousands of languages in the modern day, after milennia, for a couple religions, is amazing. I feel the bible is the most iconic and important religious text ever made. No matter when the books where written or by whom, it is an amazing piece and achievement of literature. I feel being historical and non literalist makes it even more of an amazing creation, but that's just my opinion.

A history of the ecumincal councils, and the changes to the bible that they produced would be interesting to learn about. Maybe a bonus 9th episode of this series. I wonder if theres any correlation to our oldest survivng complete copies being from right around the time they decided to have a council decide what to omit or retain in the writings. The first 7 are the most important obviously, but the vast majority of people are unaware of the 20+ ecumenicals. Maybe a full chart of just the councils would do better than a bonus episode though.

Does Matt/UsefulCharts have a video outlining the history behind the Persian period, Roman period, etc.?

Wonderful presentation! I think i will buy that chart! Couple things....do you get any push back / grief from fundamentalist Christian pastors who still...in 2022...refuse to recognize scholarship in laying out Bible history? Also the current majority of scholarship probably finds that the gospel of john was independent of the other gospels but thats starting to tilt toward john at least having mark if not all three. See dr mark goodacre at Duke U

I often see the Book of Job come up in searches as the oldest book in the Bible. In a simply Google, one can see this displayed. If so, how do you reconcile this with your research, good sir? Am I misunderstanding something? Please assist.

Brilliant summary of an amazing series. Besides Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, do you plan to extend this series to other religious books, such as the Avesta (I know that only part of it survived), the Vedas, the Tripitaka, the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, etc?

Flow of charts

When the origin stories were seperate did they each involve a bit of monotheism? Or did that really come through at a later time after they combined?

For the oldest known complete copy of the Tanakh there is Aleppo Codex, which comes earlier than the Leningrad Codex. Although it is damaged during wars its texts are recovered and made up the Jerusalem Crown, the official edition of such version of the Tanakh of state of Israel

This series is really interesting and something I recommend others watch! What is everyone's favorite book of the bible?

I'd be interested to see how the bible has evolved since the end of this chart. How different is the King James or New International version different from the Codex Vaticanus, and when we're those changes made?

Hello! I recommend for you to make the family tree, where we can see, how are related any famous Hollywood actors with Elizabeth II

Hi.. I appreciate ur work.where can i get this chart as pdf

Please do one for English dictionaries.

can you give a reference like a youtube video regarding the polythesitic origins of The isrealite religion?

One question - how do we know there were different versions of earlier writings when we do not have these different versions? Did the Dead Sea Scrolls contain some of these variations? For example Genesis before it was further added and modified.

I wiil do my homework to revise several opinions, I can recognize high critique side in some issues I don't see other options like Isaiah as one person writing...is part of our duty to verify if some data are accurate...

Will there be a video dedicated to the book of Esther? It would be interesting 🙂

So...maybe I'm misunderstanding the chart, but I'm not sure about the way this is structured relating to P taking the JE sources and adding content, but with no earlier source of P writing. I'm just thinking about the way the story of Noah is weirdly interlaced, where it will take a few verses from J, and a few contradictory verses from P and just basically interlace them. Or the way the creation account in Genesis 1 (from P) is just very different from the one in Genesis 2-4 (from J) including what order stuff was created from, whether things were created from dust or water, etc. Just...seems like visually there should be a P writings bubble that later gets combined later with JE. Whereas visually this chart makes it look like P writers found JE, and added some extra paragraphs, which...doesn't line up from what I know about how P and J are mixed together in Genesis. (Probably works fine as an explanation in Exodus and Numbers. Exodus and Numbers do read like someone just took a story and added in some barely related laws and carpentry instructions).

You should do Bill Cosby’s family tree next !

do you know Arrius Calpurnius Piso?

Please do who would be King of Britain today if they had male-only succession and not male preference

it's kind of weird that the northern part was more related to Egypt which is in the south of the land of Israel, and the southern part is more related to Mesopotamia which is in the north of the land of Israel

How do the Jahwists and Elohists fit into this chart?

First of all, I would like to say how much i enjoy and learn from your series of videos, and that I am subscribed to the channel. With particular regards to the origin story of the Jews, our version in Islam doesnt have that split between the version with Abraham vs. the version with Moses as you speculated. They basically complete each other chronologically. The idea is that Abraham was persecuted in Mesopotamia after rejecting the pagan faith of his people, and moved/fled to Kanaan. His offspring with a previously barren Sarah was Isaac, and his grandchild was Jacob. Jacob's 11 sons joined Joseph in Egypt and their offspring started the 12 tribes of Israel. Eventually the tides changed in Egypt and the Israelites became enslaved and persecuted in Egypt (probably for being affiliated with the invading Hyksos) until Moses was sent to deliver God's 'chosen people' out of Egypt and into the promised land..

I think you missed the link between the Apōcrypha and to the Septuagint.

What about the Keter 'Aram-Tsoba and the Masorah Gedolah (original MT) underlying the Leningrad Codex from about 300 years earlier??? And for the "NT", the first translation of at least the "Gospel of John in Sahidic Coptic, is a much better rendition than the present Vatican-approved texts also for Protestants.

A video on how we actually know any of this (given our oldest physical source is the DSS) would be cool.

I have to disagree on the beginning date. Now it's just a theory at the moment but in Egypt, around 1600 bc the tomb of Avaris was discovered under the city of Ramsey. It had 12 Graves, with 12 pillars, and one grave was built like a mini pyramid. Inside was a statue of a red haired individual with a striped painted coat.

Wow Judges 5 is such an incredibly accurate passage. But as is the entire Bible. Soon to complete the video but so much to think about. It is my view that most of the Bible is derived from the numbers and its relation to Fibonacci. Given that judges five is seems personally relevant - my family is Bible people after all; there is much pragmatism in eternal live. When really studied Moses is also the theory of evolution.

Matt has the kind of voice that they bring in for a hostage situation to talk everybody down. Guy’s like the physical embodiment of the chemical THC 😂

Cool

Loved the video! Do you know where I can find a good ancient Hebrew/ancient Greek to English dictionary?

What about analysis of each book in the bible

Make a video about Mary Magdalena

It is strange to learn these things in contrast to the simplistic impression I, and probably most people have during their initial introduction to religion, that the Bible was basically written as the events happened, or shortly after, by the subjects of the books.

Are you saying various tribes are telling unrelated stories around the same time, and then all of the stories were edited to fit (relate) with one another over time?

Now I feel guilty I though that series was so useful and informative I right clicked and saved the prototype chart when he didn't seem to put it up for sale.

I’ve always found the idea that the Levites may have come from Egypt and served as the source of the exodus concept compelling..like they seem really sure they came from Egypt and I think that ancient Israel would have loved to have had the claim that they had always lived in Canaan, rather than moving there and conquering it. The Bible, especially those early books, seem to put a lot of emphasis on individuals who are stand-ins/ancestors for large groups of people. Moses for the Levites, and eventually all of Israel, the various sons of Adam are basically the ancestors of the various tribes and nations the Israelites interacted with, at least that was their explanation for the world around them. In the exile and postexcile, the exact chronology of these stories was set to tell a spiritual story of their people. Either way, I think Moses is either an amalgamation of people, or perhaps he was even a real person, who led some group out of Egypt and his people eventually became what we remember as the tribe of Levi.

The numbers - law code.

Aesop wrote that book in Hades now called Egypt. During the time of Moses & Ramses ll. It is the 1st history book and classroom book. Like School History books in todays times it is the same thing. However there is one difference. Once those Pyramids were finished the book was to sit inside one of them. Once those were locked someone during a specific period of life was to have a written story that would be monumental to most of life and add it to that book. example- Industrial Revolution or Columbus discovery might be something that would be left in the book. The treasures that were inside were a gift to that person. Only to take one item for their troubles though. Being looted over time took that sort of magical moment away from the entire population. For it was not specific who could leave a story of life on earth for the time period the moment struck. Like in the movie the Mummy 5/7/99 (my 26th bday) there was a secret way in & out and you mustn't tell anyone what you saw once outside. During the building process Osiris spoke out and said this: translation- They are going to come in here. Of course that was the idea but he meant a lot of people and take all the things out. Like Scorpion King with Dwayne Johnson it was suppose to go like that. No one was more special it just was random that a person felt an urge and was drawn to Hades/Egypt to leave such a story. How do i know all of this. Well Im back(Aesop) regarding these Solar Flares that could ultimately destroy you all and all life on earth in general as well as the dangers of Climate Change and the like. Any other theories and such are just not true. Thanks. Glad my book has touched soo many people for soo many lifetimes. The children's book did well too. Aesop's Fables.

5:15 Is monolatrism that early? We have Jews in Elephantine around 400 BCE who have their own temple, and are there worshiping gods in addition to Yahweh. And they are around that time sending a letter to the Jerusalem temple to ask for monetary help, obviously under the impression that the Jerusalem community is ok with them and their worshiping of other gods in addition to Yahweh, enough to send them money.

Why did you mention the dead sea scrolls but not the Nag Hammadi texts?

The book of Job’s date is highly debated. I’m guessing it to be a very ancient story, perhaps put together much later. I believe it to be the only fictional book in Tanakh, and was written to be interpreted as such, however based on real people who have existed.

I listed to this for about 8 minutes and wondered, what happened to the influence of the Ethiopian bible (the oldest bible on earth)? This bible (Ethiopian) precedes the Romans and Europe by thousands of years. I will watch this whole series to understand the bible's origin. What has given me pause is just a small number of people on Earth are include in all versions of the bible.

Your theme song sounds Elizabethan. Am I close?

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