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

[Reno_Nevada]

@JohnnyMac

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.