2000 – 1720 BCE The Patriarchs  

Patriarchal Judaism

1720 - 1280 BCE The Israelites in Egypt 

§         Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc.

c. 1280 BCE Moses and the Exodus

§         Self-made altars, Tabernacle

1200 - 1028 BCE Joshua and the Judges

§         Sacrifices

1028 - 933 BCE The united kingdom:

Temple Judaism

§         1028-1013 Saul

§         Priests and divinely appointed king

§         1013-972 David

§         The Temple (Solomon)

§         972-921 Solomon

§         Sacrifices and ritual

922 - 722 BCE Northern Kingdom (Israel)

§         Prophets

922 - 586 BCE Southern Kingdom (Judah)

586 - 538 BCE Babylonian Exile

538 - 332 BCE Persian Occupation and the Return

Synagogue Judaism

§         520-516 Second Temple built

§         Rabbis

§         500-450 Mishnah

§         Synagogues

331 - 166 BCE Greek Occupation

§         Torah/Talmud

166 - 64 BCE The Maccabees

64 - 636 CE Roman/Byzantine Occupation

§         70  CE Temple destroyed

§         70-1948  CE Jewish Diaspora

636-1948 Muslim (Arab, Seljuk, Kurd, Mamluk, Ottoman) and British

§         7^th-9^th century Babylonian Center

§         9^th-16^th Western Center (i.e., Spain)

§         16^th-18^th Eastern Center (Eastern Europe, Germany)

§         18^th-19^th The Age of the emancipation, assimilation and Orthodox, Reform, and Conservative Judaism

19^th-20^th Anti-Semitism, Zionism, Holocaust, the Jewish State