A Guide to A library of Occidental Chronology: Aligning the Roman and Sacred Calendars for A Complete Scriptural Time Table

What does a date mean? It is difficult to understand calendars in isolation. Comparing them requires a grand alignment. Bridging the gap between history and theology Patrick R. Wilkins presents a five volume series entitled “A History of Occidental Chronology”. These easy-to-use reference guides incorporate the Jewish Christian Empirical and Greco-Roman calendar systems and subsequent time lines in chart format. Using dated biblical events as a launch pad the project assumes a rational approach to defining calendars relying on archeology science and math allowing anyone to locate dates of famous events on ancient calendars and decipher years on unfamiliar calendars in terms of our own. The fifth volume further details the chronology giving ‘hows’ and ‘whys’. Interested in astronomy? You will benefit from the clear definitions of terms and explanations of calculations. Enjoy history? Ancient and medieval history are primarily dealt with tracking the roles of political social and intellectual movements in the shaping of calendars. The greatest appeal may be to theologians and observers of human behavior. Special focus is placed on faith in a higher God and how the belief that a deity weaves together intricate patterns inside our network of time affects religion. Within this realm the Judeo-Christian concept of ‘messiah’ is explained as is the significance of prophecy. Volume III contains its own month-by-month guide to holidays that evolved from the worship of a God of order. The complete five volume book is a necessary companion tool for Bible scholars and secular historians. Its flexibility and open structure keep it current and it is adaptable as a quick table a complex chronology and an entertaining collection of historical sketches.