Made for desktop computers and large monitors. This chart is designed for a big screen. It is not designed for phones or tablets: on a small screen the wide tables and the timeline will be cramped and need sideways scrolling.
How to read it. Each card is one event. Its colored left edge stands on the year; a pale band behind a card shows how long it lasted. The small codes on each card (such as E1, J1, D2) name the sources, listed in the legend at the bottom. Click a card for the whole account, every source with its chapter and verse, and the date in both counts. Yr means the year counted from Creation.
DSS means the Dead Sea Scrolls: the scrolls found from 1947 on in caves near the Dead Sea, most of them at Qumran, copied from the third century BC to the first century AD. The number and letters after DSS name the scroll: in DSS 4Q252, 4Q means Qumran Cave 4 and 252 is the scroll's number; DSS 1QIsa is the Isaiah scroll from Cave 1. A name in parentheses after it, such as (Vermes), is the translator whose English is quoted.
Day. The Hebrew word for day is 𐤉𐤅𐤌 יום (Y-W-M), the heat-of-the-light: the warm, visible, active phase of the cycle; daylight, a period of light and heat. Read every 'day' on the chart that way. It is never the sun itself: the sun is a different word, 𐤔𐤌𐤔 שמש (Sh-M-Sh), the great light-bearer that rules the heat-of-the-light (Genesis 1:16).
The people lane draws every life to scale, showing how many generations were alive at once before the Flood. Click a bar to light up everyone who was alive at the same time. The scale changes in three places (marked with dashed lines) so the long centuries of copying do not crowd out the Bible's history or the discoveries of the last two hundred years. Predicted events, which have no date, stand at the far right.
How to move around it. You do not need the scroll bars. Grab the chart and move it: press the mouse button on any empty space in the chart, hold it and drag; the chart follows your hand up, down, left and right. Slide through the years: press on the dates along the top or the bottom of the chart and drag left or right, or roll the mouse wheel while the pointer is over the dates. On a phone or tablet, swipe with one finger. Open any item: click a card, a life bar in the people lane, or a row in the list, and an information window opens with the whole account and its sources. Close it with the × in its corner or the Escape key. The Go to menu jumps straight to an age of history, and Zoom widens or narrows the years.
"Written" gives what the book claims for itself and, where it differs, the date some scholars' opinions suggest. "Oldest copy" is the oldest surviving manuscript known. "Found or published" is when the text came to light or was printed in a modern edition. Codes beginning with D are Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS).
Every picture on the chart, who made it, its license and where it came from. Most are engravings and paintings made many centuries after the events; they show how artists pictured them, not what was seen. Five are photographs shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, which asks that the maker be named, as below. Click a picture to see it large.