History of Judaism

By Finn Francey
  • 1750 BCE

    Abraham was chosen by God to be the father of the chosen race

  • 1650 BCE

    Reign of Joseph

  • 1250 BCE

    Moses leads Jews out of Egypt

  • 1000 BCE

    Judaism started to become structure with kings such as Saul, David and Solomon

    From then on Jewish worship was focussed on the Temple, as it contained the Ark of the Covenant, and was the only place where certain rites could be carried out.
  • 920 BCE

    Kingdom of Judaism starts to fall apart and the Jewish start to split into two groups

  • 722 BCE

    Neo-Assyrian conquest

  • 600 BCE

    Jewish temple was destroyed and Jewish leadership was killed

    Many Jews were sent into exile in Babylon. Although the Jews were soon allowed to return home, many stayed in exile, beginning the Jewish tradition of the Diaspora - living away from Israel.
  • 538 BCE

    End of captivity

  • 175 BCE

    the King of Syria desecrated the temple and implemented a series of laws aiming to wipe out Judaism in favour of Zeus worship

  • 164 BCE

    Temple is restored due to a revolt

    Celebrated as Hannukah
  • 63 BCE

    Romans established control over Jewish population

  • 1 CE

    Jesus was born and would lead to a split which would found Christianity

  • 70

    First Jewish Revolt against Romans

    This brought to an end the temple worship and is still perceived by traditional Jews as the biggest trauma in Jewish history.
  • 132

    Second Jewish revolt against the Romans

    resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews, the enslaving of thousands of others, and the banning of Jews from Jerusalem
  • 200

    scholars compiled the Mishna, the collection of teachings, sayings and interpretations of the early Rabbis.

  • 439

    Romans banned synagogue building, and barred Jews from official jobs.