I am excited to be able to launch this graphic! Prominent blogger Tim Challies gave me the idea and asked me to create it for his Visual Theology series. I much prefer these kind of weekend projects instead of snow shoveling or home repair! Just a bit of background on the graphic. The point was to get as much general information about the books as possible while keeping the format simple. Obviously there are a lot directions that the graphic could take but we choose to keep it limited to a few bits of information. A couple ideas that didn’t make it in were to list the books by relative size as well as chronological order. It’s quite possible those will make it into a future graphic.
My theology is conservative so the authorship and dating of the books will reflect that.
Enjoy!
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I like it a LOT. Saw it on r/christianity, and thought the responses were a bit critical. I would love to see it with the deuterocanonical books added. I also would argue vehemently for early dating of the Gospels!
Thanks for the kind words Kenneth,
The responses I think are not out of the ordinary as they reflect a more critical view as opposed to my conservative view.
I love it! Brilliant idea and it has a lot of potential. Please make another version with the deuterocanonical and apocrypha added!
Great idea ! Could we have a french version ? or maybe the PSD file to modify it to french ?
I just found your site today and think it’s amazing! This one especially blew my mind!
I am a youth pastor in Minnesota, and am pumped about using some of these info graphics to teach! I will pass them on to others as well! Keep up the awesome work! It is a blessing to many!
Thanks Patrick! Glad you can use them.
[…] that I had made and he ended up commissioning me to create two additional pieces which were ‘The Books of the Bible‘ and ‘To the Glory of […]
[…] that I had made and he ended up commissioning me to create two additional pieces which were ‘The Books of the Bible‘ and ‘To the Glory of […]
I just found your “books of the bible” table and it is really helping me as I learn more about the bible. I’m new to the bible and often times get confused when my pastor is flipping from passage to passage during service. This has given his message more meaning and understanding to me.
I have only one request. Since I’m new to the bible, I don’t know all the books yet. It would be great if between the two-letter abbreviation and the author, you could put the name of the book. It would help me to know the difference between Mt and Mk, or other similar books.
Thank you very much for all your hard work.
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Josh, someone shared this in a group I’m in on FB and I thought it would be great in a sermon series I’m currently doing. Then I saw you made it. Small world.