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Judaism Timeline2000 BCE –
-Father of Judaism.
-Abraham
Was known as one
of the three
Patriarchs.
-God told him he
would make him a
great nation and
bless him.
975 BCE - King David
-A Jewish leader.
-The Messiah
(Mashiach) will come
from his descendants.
-Founded the nation of
Israel.
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565 BCE – Babylonians
-The first holy temple destroyed
and the Jews exiled to
Babylonia.
-The Babylonians took captive
10,000 of the brightest Jews
from Israel.
-When the Babylonians fell to
the Persians, the Jews were
permitted to return.
967 BCE – King Solomon
-Appointed king by King David.
-In violation to the Torah, Solomon
takes too many wives.
-The crowning achievement of
Solomon’s reign was building the
Temple his father, King David, dreamed
to build.(first holy temple built)
1250 BCE – Exodus from Egypt
-Moses saves Israelites from slavery in Egypt.
-Moses parted the Red Sea in order for the
Jews to escape.
-He brought them to mount Sinai and
received God’s commandments.
1090 – 1654 CE – Capture and
Expulsion
- Jerusalem captured during the
crusades.
-The expulsion of Jews from
England, Germany, Spain, and
New York.
-Black death reaches Europe.
1884 – Zionism
-A form of nationalism of Jews
and Jewish culture.
-Now a movement for the
Jewish nation of Israel.
-The father of modern Zionism
is Theodor Herzl.
-Jewish Holy Land
1948
-Declaration of
independence was read.
-The day after it war
erupted.
-Creation of the NationState
Late 1700’s - 1881
-Pogromes
1939-1945
-Tunisia under the Ottoman
-The holocaust.
Empire
-1939, World War II began.
-Jews were aloud to return to
-Concentration camps,
England.
ghettos, transit camps, etc.
-Reform Judaism.
70 CE – Roman Empire
were created to imprison
-The Romans destroyed most
Jews.
of the temple in
Jerusalem.(second Holy Temple
destroyed)
21st Century
-Diaspora.
-Conflict over Israel/Palestine.
-Wars against the Jews.
-For the 3rd Sabbath in a row, Orthodox Jews have
gathered to protest driving on the Sabbath.
-Orthodox feminism movements.
-Updated Jewish beliefs(with the exception of
Orthodox).