Old Testament

first division of the Christian biblical canon

11 dated entries naming Old Testament, drawn from 11 separate years between 571 BCE and 1950 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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6th century BC

571 BCEEzekiel, prophet in the Old Testament after whom the Book of Ezekiel is named.source

5th century BC

430 BCETraditional date where scholars believe the Hebrew prophet known as Malachi writes the 39th and last book, and last of the prophetic books, of the Old Testament of the Biblical canon, the Book of Malachi. Biblical books written between now and the millennium will not be included in the Hebrew Bible and in some Christian traditions considered Biblical apocrypha.source

2nd century

142Marcion proclaims that the Old Testament is incompatible with Christianity.source

3rd century

239Origen publishes the Old Testament in five languages (approximate date).source

4th century

390Jerome, having finished the Latin translation of the New Testament, begins translating the Old Testament.source

16th century

1534October 4 – As the Michaelmas fair opens in Wittenberg, Martin Luther's translation of the complete Christian Bible into German is offered for sale for the first time. The work, printed on 1,824 pages in two volumes by Hans Lufft adds the Old Testament including the deuterocanonical books to Luther's 1522 translation of the New Testament, and includes woodcut illustrations.source
1563December 4 – The Council of Trent (which had opened on December 13, 1545) officially closes. It reaffirms all major Roman Catholic doctrines, and declares the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament to be canonical, along with the rest of the Bible. Chapter 1, Session 24, promulgates the decree Tametsi, stipulating that for a marriage to be valid, consent (the essence of marriage) as expressed in the vows has to be given publicly before witnesses, one of whom has to be the parish priest.source

17th century

1609The Douay–Rheims Bible Old Testament translation from the Vulgate into English vol. 1 is published in Reims.source
1666May 13 – French theologian Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy is imprisoned in the Bastille after his conviction for heresy in connection with the Jansenist movement. Sacy uses his two and one-half years of incarceration (which lasts until November 14, 1668), to create the Bible du Port-Royal, a first French language rendition of the Bible, finishing a translation of the Old Testament from the Vulgate, written in Latin, that had been started by his brother Antoine, and then beginning work on the New Testament.source

20th century

1943Martin Noth's groundbreaking work of Old Testament scholarship, Überlieferungsgeschichtliche Studien: Die sammelnden und bearbeitenden Geschichtswerke im Alten Testament, is published.source
1950Knox's Translation of the Vulgate Old Testament (commissioned by the Catholic Church) is published.source