-- Mesopotamia:
--------- Hammurabi code
1600
Hebrews enslaved in -- ---------
Egypt 1500 -- Egypt: Hyksos expelled
---------
EXODUS AND CONQUEST 1400
---------
Moses -- 1300
--------- -- Egypt: Raamses II
Joshua in Canaan -- 1200 \__ Trojan War
---------
Judges -- 1100
UNITED KINGDOM ---------
David -- 1000
Solomon -- ---------
DIVIDED KINGDOM 900
Israel and Judah --
separate ---------
Israel Falls -- 800
---------
700
"Book of the Covenant" -- ---------
Judah falls -- -- Babylonia conquers
600 Assyria: Nineveh
EXILE AND RETURN falls
Decree of Cyrus -- ---------
Pentateuch canonized __/ 500 \ -- Persia conquers
\ Babylonia
Ezra and Nehemiah -- --------- \ Golden age of Athens
400 /
--------- /
HELLENISTIC ERA 300 -- Alexander the Great
Pentateuch translated -- ---------
into Greek (Septaugint) 200 -- Antiochus IV
Maccabeans -- ---------
100 B.C.
NOTE: The traditional date for the birth of Christ is the turning
point of the Western calendar, the year 1. Dates before then are
labeled B.C.; dates after then are labeled A.D. The higher the
date B.C. the earlier it is; the lower the date B.C., the closer
it is to the Christian era. For years labeled A.D., the higher the
number, the later the date is. Some histories of Old Testament
times, especially those by Jewish scholars, replace the
abbreviations B.C. and A.D. with B.C.E. and C.E., respectively.
OLD TESTAMENT: THE OLD TESTAMENT AND ITS TIMES
