|
Year |
Landmark Events |
|
538-333 B.C.E. |
Persian Period. |
|
538 B.C.E. |
Edict of Cyrus (first return from Exile). |
|
520-515 B.C.E. |
Jerusalem ("Second") Temple rebuilt. |
|
520 B.C.E. |
Judean Prophet Haggai. |
|
500 B.C.E. |
The notion of a Messiah, a political/military-religious/moral
leader, develops. |
|
450-400 B.C.E. |
Reformation led by Ezra and Nehemiah. |
|
ca. 450 B.C.E. |
Torah (Pentateuch = first division of Jewish Scriptures) begins
to gain recognition as Scripture. |
|
438 B.C.E. |
Achashverosh becomes king of Persia. |
|
426 B.C.E. |
First decrees by Haman; fast ordered by Esther, Haman's downfall
and execution. |
|
425 B.C.E. |
Haman's ten sons executed; Purim celebration. |
|
424 B.C.E. |
Megillah recorded. |
|
411 B.C.E. |
Bagoas, a Persian, is made governor of Jerusalem. |
|
333-63 B.C.E. |
Hellenistic (Greek) period. |
|
333/331 B.C.E. |
Alexander the Great conquers the Land of Israel. |
|
ca. 320-168 B.C.E. |
Judaism under Greek Ptolemies & Seleucids. |
|
ca. 250 B.C.E. |
Septuagint translation of Torah into Greek. |
|
ca. 230-146 B.C.E. |
Coming of Rome to the east Mediterranean. |
|
ca. 201 B.C.E. |
Prophets (second division of Jewish Scriptures) recognized by
some as Scripture |
|
ca. 200 B.C.E.-135 C.E. |
Jewish Qumran community. |
|
175 B.C.E. |
Selicid, king of Syria, plunders Jerusalem, murdering many. |
|
166-160 B.C.E. |
Jewish Maccabean revolt against restrictions on practice of
Judaism and desecration of the Temple. |
|
142-129 B.C.E. |
Jewish autonomy under Hasmoneans. |
|
63 B.C.E. |
Rome (Pompey) annexes the land of Israel. |
|
66-73 C.E. |
First Jewish Revolt against Rome. |
|
69 C.E. |
Vespasian gives Yochanan ben Zakkai permission to establish a
Jewish center for study at Yavneh that will become the hub for
rabbinic Judaism. |
|
70 C.E. |
Destruction of Jerusalem and the second Temple. |
