About the four methods
Every method is a tradition that assigns the Torah's pesukim (verses) to stretches of world history. The baseline is the Jewish reckoning that the world runs about 6,000 years — Psalm 90:4 and Sanhedrin 97a describe a day of God as a thousand years, so six millennia are the six "days" of creation, and the seventh is the world's Shabbat.
The methods start from different anchors, so for any given year they usually land on different pesukim. That is not a contradiction to resolve — it's the point of the project. Each is a lens.
One Year, One PasukMethod A
5846 pesukim = 5846 years
The famous tradition (circulated in the name of the Vilna Gaon): each pasuk of the Torah corresponds to one year, starting from the first. Year 1 = pasuk 1, ... year 5846 = the final pasuk.
Source: Vilna Gaon (attributed), '5846 pesukim, each = its year'
Scaled to 6000Method B
Torah spans the full 6000-year arc
Rescales the whole Torah to the 6000-year world-clock (Sanhedrin 97a / Zohar: six millennia = six days). Each pasuk ≈ 1.026 years, so the Torah's final pasuk reaches the year 6000 and the seventh 'Shabbat' millennium.
Source: 6-millennia world-clock (Sanhedrin 97a, Zohar, Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer)
Sefer to MillenniaMethod C
Each book = an era of history
Structural mapping by the Tanna d'vei Eliyahu 3x2000 scheme: Bereishis → the first ~2000 years (creation to Avraham), Shemos/Bamidbar → the 'Torah' 2000 years, Devarim → the sixth millennium. Each book gets its own years-per-pasuk density.
Source: Tanna d'vei Eliyahu Rabbah (2000 tohu / 2000 Torah / 2000 Moshiach) + book themes
Devarim, 10 CenturiesMethod D
The Gra's Devarim → sixth-millennium map
The Vilna Gaon's specific tradition: the 10 parshiyos of Devarim correspond to the 10 centuries of the sixth millennium (5000–6000). Pick a year in 5000–6000 and get the pasuk within the matching century-parsha.
Source: Vilna Gaon (see TORCH 'Deuteronomy and the Sixth Millennium'; torahone.com 'The Last Ten Centuries')
A note on all this
These mappings are documented traditions, study aids, and reflective tools — not predictions, not halachah, and not a literal timeline to be trusted for decision-making. They are presented as what they are: beautiful ways the tradition has read the shape of history through the text of the Torah. Use them for inspiration and curiosity.