# What's the historic order of these events? (Christian religious question)

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**Created:** [August 15, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-historic-order-of-these-events-christian-religious-question/592790 "2011-08-15T16:18:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-historic-order-of-these-events-christian-religious-question/592790/41 "2011-08-17T22:30:16Z")

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> [@JohnnyMac](#):
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> Thanks for the websites, I’ll have a look through them. Considering you hesitate to recommend any in particular, I wonder if any other Dopers could give me recommendations? To be honest, it’s social context and what the writers / apostles / people appearing in the Bible would have believed themselves, and how they’d have seen things, that really interests me. I imagine they’d have understood the text differently to how I do, but I can’t tell quite how.

I like _Asimov’s Guide to the Bible_, written by I. Asimov–it is an attempt to do exactly what you are asking for there. I think his treatment of the Old Testament is better than his treatment of the New Testament, and also I must give the proviso that while it was probably up-to-date when written, that was a while ago now and modern archeology has moved on.

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