Annette Yoshiko Reed

Religion 212: Religions of the Western World: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Fall semester 2001; section 3

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

TIMELINE, Section 1 (covering only material to be covered on Quiz 1, October 2)

2000-1700 BCE - Israel's Patriarchal period

1300-1200 BCE - Mosaic period – Exodus from Egypt, migration(s) to Canaan

1200-1050/1000 BCE - Period of the Judges

1000-587 BCE - Monarchic period in Israel

1030-1010 BCE – King Saul 
1010-970 BCE – King David, ruling with Jerusalem as his capital; Davidic Monarchy

970-931 BCE – King Solomon; building of the Jerusalem Temple

931 BCE – With death of King Solomon, Northern Kingdom (Israel) sucedes from Southern Kingdom (Judah)

722/721 BCE - Northern Kingdom (Israel) conquered by Assyrians, population dispersed (= “lost tribes of Israel”)

620 BCE – King Josiah (of Judah) and "Deuteronomic Reforms"

600-580 BCE - Judean Prophets, Jeremiah and Ezekiel

586 BCE - Southern Kingdom (Judah) and Jerusalem Temple destroyed by Babylonians; Babylonian Exile

538 BCE – Cyrus the Persian conquers Babylon. The Persians allow Jews to return to their land and grant them funds to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple (= Second Temple); beginning of “Second Temple period”

333-323 BCE – Conquests of Alexander the Great

305 BCE – Israel comes under Ptolemaic (Greek-Egyptian) rule

c. 250 BCE – Torah first translated into Greek (= Septuagint [LXX])

200 BCE – Israel comes under Seleucidic (Greek-Syrian) rule

168-165 BCE – Maccabean Revolt against Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes

164 BCE – Rededication of the Second Temple (now commemorated by Hanukhah)

140-63 BCE – The Hasmonean Dynasty, Israel under native (but non-Davidic) rule

63 BCE – The Roman general Pompey invades Jerusalem, Israel becomes Roman vassal state

40 BCE-39 BCE – The rule of King Herod and his sons

(6 CE – Birth of Jesus of Nazareth)

6-66 CE – Israel mostly under the direct rule of Roman procurators

66-70 CE – Jewish Revolt against Rome

70 CE – Jerusalem and the Second Temple destroyed by Romans (Titus, son of the emperor Vespasian)

132-135 CE – Bar Kokhba Revolt (second Jewish revolt against Rome); Rome suppresses the Revolt

c. 200 CE – Compilation of the Mishnah, with rise to prominence of Rabbinic Judaism

425 CE - Abolishment of office of the Nasi (Patriarch) in Roman Palestine by (Christian) Roman Emperor Theodotius; beginning of shift of Jewish culture and learning to Babylon

c. 500 CE – Completion of the Bavli (Babylonian Talmud)

882-942 CE - Saadia Gaon (Babylon)

1040-1105 CE - Rashi (R. Shlomo ben Yitzhak; Provence, France)

1135-1204 CE - Maimonides (Moses ha-Maimon, RAMBAM)

12^th century CE – Emergence of Kabbalah

1250-1305 CE -  Moses ben Shemtov of Leon, author of the Zohar

1492 CE – Expulsion of Jews from Spain

16^th century CE - Joseph Karo, Shulkan Arukh