Judaism Timeline

Timeline

  • c. 1000 BCE
    Tentative date of the composition of the Torah's J source.
  • c. 1000 BCE
    Emergence of Yahwism.
  • c. 900 BCE
    Tentative date of the composition of the Torah's E source.
  • c. 621 BCE
    Tentative date of the composition of the Torah's D source.
  • 597 BCE - 587 BCE
    Jews are deported to Babylonia.
  • 587 BCE - 539 BCE
    Jewish exile in Babylonia.
  • 586 BCE
    Destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and exile of upper class Judeans.
  • 539 BCE - c. 330 BCE
    Tentative date of the redactional (=editorial) activity of the Torah's P source.
  • 539 BCE
    Fall of Babylon, conquered by Cyrus of Persia. Return of the Jews.
  • c. 516 BCE
    The temple in Jerusalem, destroyed in 586 BCE by the Babylonians, is rebuilt.
  • c. 250 BCE
    Torah is translated into Greek in Alexandria, Egypt.
  • 167 BCE - 160 BCE
    The Maccabean Revolt.
  • 70 CE
    The city of Jerusalem is besieged and captured by Rome; the Second Temple destroyed.
  • 132 CE - 136 CE
    The Bar-Kochba Revolt.
  • c. 137 CE
    The Bar Kokhba Revolt in Judea.
  • c. 600 CE
    Babylonian Talmud is compiled.
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