Wednesday, 21 October 2009

History update and thoughts

Colin - congratulations!

Chris - is this the kind of data you need for prototype work?
Do you have access to the History dropbox folder?David IB

At 16:48 21/10/2009, Tyndale STEP Project wrote:
>The first pass of the history timeline is nearing completion. (See the
>dropbox folder.) The remaining things to do are:
>* the Gospels
>* the prophetic books (where we can sensibly date sections of the book,
>so effectively Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel. Ezekiel, Haggai and Zechariah
>are already done.)
>* sort out the intertestamental period. (Hoping to find a single
>sensible source for this, which I haven't done yet.)
>* background outlines of world history away from the "Biblical area"
>* various checks on other sources to confirm dating information. The
>major one here is to ensure we're reflecting scholarly concensus on when
>various books were authored. In general I've been following the IVP
>dictionaries but they aren't always consistent...
>
>There are going to be places where we want more detail than we have at
>present, I think, but it will be easier to ascertain where and how much
>when we have some mockups of the modules as they stand. (I think this
>was planned to happen soon but I can't see anything relevant from the
>programming blog.)
>
>Colin

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