Approximate Timeline of Hebrew Events
20th – 16th centuries B.C.
Migratory processes connected to the Patriarchs of Israel (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)
14th – 13th centuries B.C.
Exodus from Egypt
12th century B.C.
Israelites conquer Canaan
967 B.C.
Death of King David
967 – 928 B.C.
Kingdom of Solomon
950 B.C.
First Temple is completed
928 B.C.
Israel is divided into Northern and Southern kingdoms
722 B.C.
Assyrians conquer Northern Kingdom. Ten Tribes taken into captivity
597 B.C.
Babylonians capture Jerusalem, beginning of Babylonian Exile
586 B.C.
Babylonians destroy Jerusalem and the First Temple
538 B.C.
Cyrus Declaration
516 B.C.
Second Temple consecrated
458 B.C.
Ezra arrives in Jerusalem
445 B.C.
Nehemiah arrives in Jerusalem
c 410 B.C.
Jewish temple at Elephantine, Egypt is destroyed
332 B.C.
Alexander the Great conquers Judea
301-200 B.C.
Judea ruled by Ptolemaic, Hellenistic empire
200 B.C.
Judea comes under Seleucid, Hellenistic rule
167 B. C.
Outbreak of Hasmonean Uprising; led by Judah Maccabee after death of Mattathias
164 B.C.
Judah Maccabee retakes Jerusalem, Temple reconsecrated
160-142 B.C.
Jonathan leads Hasmonean uprising. Jewish sects first appear in Judea.
141 – 63 B.C.
Hasmoneans rule independent Jewish state and kingdom
63 B.C.
Roman army captures Judea
37 – 4 B.C.
Kingdom of Herod the Great
7 B.C. – 4 B.C.
Birth of Jesus the Christ (Herod dies – 4 B.C.
A.D. 66-70
Jewish uprising against Rome
A.D. 70
Fall of Jerusalem. Second temple destroyed
A.D. 73-74
Fall of Masada
A.D. 132-135
Bar Kokhba Uprising
A.D. c375-400
Jerusalem Talmud is completed
A.D. 500-600
Babylonian Talmud is completed
A.D. 1947
First discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at Qumran.
Credit to Prof. I.M. Gafni for most of list, with some omissions and addition of name and birth year of Jesus, through The Teaching Company: “Beginnings of Judaism” .
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