Formative Events
| BCE | ||
| 1500 | Exodus and desert wanderings - primal tribal memory - God with us via the Tabernacle | |
| 900s | Settling the Land, Solomon's temple - God's house 'permanent?' | |
| 587 | Destruction of Solomon's Temple by Nebuchadnezzar | |
| 535-516 | Building the Second Temple | |
| 336-323 | Alexander; beginning of Greek cultural domination or Hellenization | |
| 163-63 | Hasmonean - Maccabean dynasty | |
| 37 | Herod, the Jewish King | |
| 20-19 | Herod begins to rebuild the temple later described by Josephus as white and gold, like snow covered mountains. Judaism considered the single most vital religion in the Greco-Roman world. | |
| CE | ||
| 26-27 | Completion of the temple | |
| 30 | Passover: Crucifixion | |
| 70 | Vespasian leaves Titus in charge of Roman army in Judea, Sack of Jerusalem. Jerusalem a city divided against itself (Josephus). |
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