Looking For A Chronological Bible Reading Plan

[nanookadenord]

I have been looking for a chronological bible reading plan that includes the apocrypha and will be planned out for two years instead of one year. Most plans out there are a year and there are some two year ones, but they don't include the apocrypha.

I even thought about looking for a tool online to create my own chronological two year plan w/ apocrypha, but haven't found anything like that.

Thanks!

 

[chevyontheriver]

I have been looking for a chronological bible reading plan that includes the apocrypha and will be planned out for two years instead of one year. Most plans out there are a year and there are some two year ones, but they don't include the apocrypha.

I even thought about looking for a tool online to create my own chronological two year plan w/ apocrypha, but haven't found anything like that.

Thanks!

Jeff Cavins has a chronological framework that should be useful. I don't know if it is set up as a two year thingie, but what it does is goes through the Bible as a chronological development and makes all of those books make more coherent sense. Check him out.

 

[nanookadenord]

Jeff Cavins has a chronological framework that should be useful. I don't know if it is set up as a two year thingie, but what it does is goes through the Bible as a chronological development and makes all of those books make more coherent sense. Check him out.

Haven't been able to find what it is that you mentioned on his website, but does he only include the seven deuterocanonical books or does he include other books beyond the seven? I was looking for the others as well.

Edit: That's what it looks like it is. I am looking for more then just the seven.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Haven't been able to find what it is that you mentioned on his website, but does he only include the seven deuterocanonical books or does he include other books beyond the seven? I was looking for the others as well.

Edit: That's what it looks like it is. I am looking for more then just the seven.

I found a 'three month' highlights of the 'Bible Timeline' which does include 1 Maccabees here: http://assets.ascensionpress.com/tga/student/Reading_Plan.pdf

As to a two year plan, something with more meat than this three month plan, maybe it's out there. I suspect few such plans would have the deuterocanonical books though, which IS a gaping hole. For that' maybe Cavins is still the best.

I suspect that something including books like Enoch and Jubilees has probably yet to be written. That sounds more like a two semester college course I took years and years ago as background to the study of the Church Fathers.

 

[nanookadenord]

I found a 'three month' highlights of the 'Bible Timeline' which does include 1 Maccabees here: http://assets.ascensionpress.com/tga/student/Reading_Plan.pdf

As to a two year plan, something with more meat than this three month plan, maybe it's out there. I suspect few such plans would have the deuterocanonical books though, which IS a gaping hole. For that' maybe Cavins is still the best.

I suspect that something including books like Enoch and Jubilees has probably yet to be written. That sounds more like a two semester college course I took years and years ago as background to the study of the Church Fathers.

Maybe this might help? I am looking for these books of the apocrypha exactly:

Judith
Wisdom of Solomon
Tobit
Ecclesiasticus
Baruch
The Letter of Jeremiah
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Old Greek Esther
Susanna
Bel and the Dragon
Prayer of Azariah
Song of the Three Holy Children
Prayer of Manasseh
1 Esdras
2 Esdras
3 Maccabees
4 Maccabees
Pslam 151

These are in the Apocrypha Lutheran Edition, however, there is no chronological plan associated with it that includes them in a Bible plan for two years.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Maybe this might help? I am looking for these books of the apocrypha exactly:

Judith
Wisdom of Solomon
Tobit
Ecclesiasticus
Baruch
The Letter of Jeremiah
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Old Greek Esther
Susanna
Bel and the Dragon
Prayer of Azariah
Song of the Three Holy Children
Prayer of Manasseh
1 Esdras
2 Esdras
3 Maccabees
4 Maccabees
Pslam 151

These are in the Apocrypha Lutheran Edition, however, there is no chronological plan associated with it that includes them in a Bible plan for two years.

The last five would be rarely referenced, as not considered canon even by Catholics. These last books are sometimes considered canon by the Orthodox, or at least some kinds of Orthodox ... so ... maybe ... there is an Orthodox source that would include them in some sort of Bible timeline. I've never seen it. I do think the idea of incorporating these last five books, and also books like Enoch and Jubilees, fills in a gaping historical hole that is left by the Protestant Bible.

Let me know if you find anything.

By the way, I'm listening to Nicholas Lebich, on a youtube video based off of Jeff Cavin's timeline. It might provide some clues as to how to access Cavin's work, which otherwise seems to have been commercialized (he has to make a living) and thus not freely available.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

The Presbyterian "Worship Book" has a Lectionary section that takes a person through the Bible. The Book of Common Prayer may have a similar section. Both are designed to give systematic Scripture readings in church services.

 

[nanookadenord]

The Presbyterian "Worship Book" has a Lectionary section that takes a person through the Bible. The Book of Common Prayer may have a similar section. Both are designed to give systematic Scripture readings in church services.

Looks a bit like a Catholic lectionary in that it doesn't have you go through all scripture. You still miss alot of the bible.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Looks a bit like a Catholic lectionary in that it doesn't have you go through all scripture. You still miss alot of the bible.

The full effect of the Catholic lectionary is obtained by going to Sunday mass AND daily mass, where considerably more is read, often chapter by chapter in books where the Sunday reading is from. Point being that lectionaries are by nature selective, but at the same time often much more broad than whatever the pastor might decide to select on his own.

 

[nanookadenord]

The full effect of the Catholic lectionary is obtained by going to Sunday mass AND daily mass, where considerably more is read, often chapter by chapter in books where the Sunday reading is from. Point being that lectionaries are by nature selective, but at the same time often much more broad than whatever the pastor might decide to select on his own.

Okay. Thank you!

This isn't a point of argument, but just an observation that many working adults are unable to attend daily mass. Even if I could attend Sunday mass, I would never be able to attend daily mass.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Okay. Thank you!

This isn't a point of argument, but just an observation that many working adults are unable to attend daily mass. Even if I could attend Sunday mass, I would never be able to attend daily mass.

I can't either. But what I can do, and when I'm in the groove I actually pull off, is read the daily readings that I would have heard had I been able to go. That is a pretty good three year reading plan.

Some day I would like to figure out what parts of Scripture are not in the complete (daily) three year lectionary and then make a reading plan for those parts. I suspect they would be the more dry parts of Leviticus mostly, but then again I'm not sure.

 

[he-man]

I have been looking for a chronological bible reading plan that includes the apocrypha and will be planned out for two years instead of one year. Most plans out there are a year and there are some two year ones, but they don't include the apocrypha.
I even thought about looking for a tool online to create my own chronological two year plan w/ apocrypha, but haven't found anything like that.
Thanks!

Try this

 

[nanookadenord]

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[he-man]

I have been looking for a chronological bible reading plan that includes the apocrypha and will be planned out for two years instead of one year. Most plans out there are a year and there are some two year ones, but they don't include the apocrypha.
I even thought about looking for a tool online to create my own chronological two year plan w/ apocrypha, but haven't found anything like that.[\Quote] Try mine when you get to the end you will be reading apocrypha and I will send the rest, June - Dec later if you like.

Thanks!

 

[Kit Sigmon]

I have been looking for a chronological bible reading plan that includes the apocrypha and will be planned out for two years instead of one year. Most plans out there are a year and there are some two year ones, but they don't include the apocrypha.

I even thought about looking for a tool online to create my own chronological two year plan w/ apocrypha, but haven't found anything like that.

Thanks!

I checked through my notes, online files and stuff...here's something you could use
to make your own chronological reading plan and by using the dates when each book was written you could fit in the deuterocanonical books.
That way you can create your very own chronological reading plan that includes
the deuterocanonical books.

Here's a link I saved to my Bible docs/notes.: file:///Users/winona2/Desktop/When%20Was%20Each%20Book%20of%20the%20Bible%20Written_%20-%20Bible%20Gateway%20Blog.htm