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Timetable History of Judaism


1200-1010
1010-926
926-722
722
587
587-538
538-140
140-137
A.D. 70
A.D. 133 		Pastoral Patriarchate
Egyptian Exile
Federation of Pastoral Tribes
Unified Kingdom
Divided Kingdom
Israel conquered by Assyrians
Juda conquered by Babylonians
Babylonian Captivity
Juda under foreign rule
the Maccabean State
Roman Conquest (Vespasian); begin of Diaspora
Roman Conquest after revolt, intensification of Diaspora



... Geography, Peoples :
..... Know Jordan river, Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee, Sinai peninsula, Palestine, Hebron, Zion = Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jericho, Sodom, Gomorrha
..... Know Canaan, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Maccabaeans, Samaritans, Phoenicians, Sabaeans

... Religion
..... old testament, ark of the covenant, sabbath, prophet, monotheism, promised land, paradise, messiah, Hebrew
..... menorah, torah, rabbi, passah, bar mitzva

... Know persons, factions
..... Persons : Moses, David, Solomon, Nebuchadnezar II., Cyrus the Great, Jesus
..... factions : Pharisees, Sadduceans, Essenes


... Glimpse Ahead

... Jewish diaspora
..... communities spread all over the mediterranean (i.e. Roman Empire) and further east throughout the Hellenistic world
..... flourishing in Umayyad Spain - Maimonides
..... conversion of Khazars
..... medieval Europe - Jewish communities under royal protection; ghetto
..... crusades, reconquista, pogromes and inquisition
..... invitation to Jews by King Casimir the Great of Poland; Yiddish, shtetl
..... Ashkenazim, Sephardim
..... 19th century : emanzipation - Napoleon Bonaparte; assimilation
..... Anti-Semitism, Gobineau, Russian pogromes, Dreyfus-affair
..... Theodor Herzl, Der Judenstaat, Zionist Congress
..... Balfour Declaration, UN decision for Partition, Foundation of Israel

... Palestine since the fall of Jerusalem
..... since 3rd century majority monophysite christians
..... 638 Jerusalem opened its gates to armies of Islam
..... in centuries of Islamic rule, individual conversions resulted in a Muslim population majority
..... 1096-1291 crusades : Latin christians claimed holy sites
..... 1517-1918 Ottoman (Turkish) rule over Palestine
..... 1918-1948 Palestine British mandate; limited immigration of European jews permitted; intifada of 1936-1938
..... partition of 1948, wars 1948, 1966, 1973

... Competition of Religions for Holy Land / Sites
..... Modern Judaism, Christianity, Islam (i.e. all their branches) regard the Old Testament a holy book and claim to be legitimate descendants of the Old Testament Jews
..... all three religions are, in Jewish tradition, monotheistic, accepting only their interpretation as sole truth and the others thus as false, hence a tendency for intolerance and a source for conflict.
..... The temple mount in Jerusalem (Al Quds in Arab) is sacred to all three world religions; the Muslim community has had control over it over most of the last 1300 years, the Al Aqsa mosq being visible expression; the wailing wall, part of the fundament of Solomo's temple, being the most sacred site to Jews.



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