{"id":37,"date":"2008-01-29T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2008\/01\/google-timeline-view-of-biblical-events\/"},"modified":"2016-02-06T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T15:05:01","slug":"google-timeline-view-of-biblical-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2008\/01\/google-timeline-view-of-biblical-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Timeline View of Biblical Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google just introduced an experimental view of search results that identifies dates embedded in webpages and shows you a timeline of when these pages say the relevant events occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Below are searches for a few events in the Bible. Obviously the timelines reflect divergent opinions on when the events occurred.<\/p>\n<h3>Jesus\u2019 Birth<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/views?q=birth+Jesus+view%3Atimeline&amp;vwdr=8+BC+-+1+AD\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2008-01-birth-timeline.png\" width=\"470\" height=\"46\" alt=\"See the results for Jesus\u2019 birth on Google.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe current consensus seems to be sometime in 2 B.C.<\/p>\n<h3>Jesus\u2019 Crucifixion<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/views?q=crucifixion+view%3Atimeline&amp;vwdr=26+AD+-+36+AD\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2008-01-crucifixion-timeline.png\" width=\"512\" height=\"46\" alt=\"See the results for Jesus\u2019 crucifixion on Google.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe year A.D. 30 is the clear leader here. Notice how most of the bars in the first few months of the year, which you\u2019d expect if the Crucifixion coincided with Passover.<\/p>\n<h3>The Exodus<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/views?q=exodus+view%3Atimeline&amp;vwdr=1500+BC+-+1200+BC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2008-01-exodus-timeline.png\" width=\"726\" height=\"62\" alt=\"See the results for the Exodus on Google.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHere you see the two main datings of the Exodus: the 15th century and the 13th century B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/battellemedia.com\/archives\/004239.php\">Searchblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Update February 2016: At some point, Google discontinued this offering, so the above links to Google no longer work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google just introduced an experimental view of search results that identifies dates embedded in webpages and shows you a timeline of when these pages say the relevant events occurred. Below are searches for a few events in the Bible. Obviously the timelines reflect divergent opinions on when the events occurred. Jesus\u2019 Birth The current consensus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}