Judaism Timeline

C. 1800 BCE – Abraham and Sarah are selected to be ancestors of the Israelites by God, go to Israel and fight with the Cainites and other locals there → Later down the line, they flee to Egypt due to famine and are enslaved 

C. 1280 BCE – Exodus, where they leave Egypt and go to the Promised Land and receive the Torah 

C. 1000 BCE – Davidic monarchy is set up, creating the first kings 

C. 950 BCE – David’s son, Soloman, builds the First Temple in Jerusalem, temple is where priests operate and carry out sacrifices on behalf of people

• Following Soloman’s reign, the two sons split the kingdom of Israel into two halves, the northern half being called Israel, while the southern half is called Judean (where Jews come from) with Jerusalem and the Temple  

• Judeans perspective of the Bible, given a biased perspective against Israelites 

C. 722 BCE – Northern kingdom is destroyed by Assyrians and pushes Israelites out of Israel 

C. 621 BCE – Josiah, a king (I think) of Judea, mandates temple worship to centralize power at the temple in order to gain more followers to Jerusalem

C. 586 - 583 BCE – First Temple is destroyed by the Babylonians, taking all elites of Judea and exiled them to Babylon 

C. 515  BCE – The exiles are allowed to return and rebuild the Second Temple

• Alexander the Great of the Greek Empire overruns the area, desecrating the temples (like idol worship and having pigs) and bring rise to Jewish militant leaders to overthrow the Greeks, creating short-lived independence 

C. 200 CE – Romans form and overtake the Greeks and suppress the Greeks

• Start of Jesus’s birth and growth of Christianity 

C. 70 CE – Romans destroy the Second Temple