History of Judaism

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

1750 BCE

Reign of Joseph

1650 BCE

Moses leads Jews out of Egypt

1250 BCE

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

1000 BCE

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.

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

920 BCE

Neo-Assyrian conquest

722 BCE

Jewish temple was destroyed and Jewish leadership was killed

600 BCE

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.

End of captivity

538 BCE

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

175 BCE

Temple is restored due to a revolt

164 BCE

Celebrated as Hannukah

Romans established control over Jewish population

63 BCE

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

1 CE

First Jewish Revolt against Romans

70

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

Second Jewish revolt against the Romans

132

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

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

200

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

439