One Year Chronological Bible
The start of a New Year is always a time for resolutions, even though any day of the year can be a new beginning if we choose it to be! One resolution which lends itself to January 1 is reading the Bible in a year. This sounds like a simple enough task, but in reality it’s very difficult. One reason is that you reach a difficult part of the Bible in February/March time, another reason is that some of the material is duplicated (and told from different perspectives), and the arrangement of the Bible is not chronological. These three difficulties conspire to confound even the most dedicated reader, as I know from experience!
An answer to this problem is to read the Bible in chronological order, and there are a number of Bibles which set out the material in this way. One year I read the Bible through in the New International Version, although I didn’t find the associated commentary helpful as it was written by a very conservative scholar. This year I am using the Bible pictured above, which has minimal notes as you progress through. The translation is the inclusive language New Living Translation. And so to Genesis chapter 1…
I am doing google searches for folks reading the bible in a year and blogging about it. i have a group on Facebook that is an accountability group called the word in 365. together we’re reading the chronological bible via daily links to bible gateway’s reading plans. I’m keeping my journal in blog form (thewordin365.wordpress.com) I’m trying to find other bible bloggers so I can build a comprehensive blog roll. let me know if I can add you to the list! good luck this year!
-erika
amazzicolors
January 3, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Yeah, sure! That’s OK, thanks for getting in touch! Best wishes, John.
John Ager
January 3, 2011 at 6:32 pm
What kind of “chronological order” is it? There’s the chronological order of the events narrated (beginning with Genesis 1.1….) and there is the chronological order of composition (so, in the New Testament, you’d have Paul’s letters before the gospels….)
David Cavanagh
January 3, 2012 at 4:25 pm