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PATRIARCHS KINGS
1st Temple
900-586 BCE 		 

2nd Temple period ends 70 CE
Herod's Temple

   Geonic Era
6th to 11th cent. CE		 Medieval Era 1100 - 1700 CE Haskalah 1750-1880 Modern era - 1890 >>>  
Avraham
Yitzach
Jaacov 		Moses

Saul 1020 BCE
David 1000 BCE
Solomon 960 BCE

 Judah
Maccabee
168 BCE

Bar Kochba Rebellion 132-135 CE
Rabbi Akiva 132 CE

Dome of the Rock
Al Aksa mosque
(Muslims take Jerusalem)
691 CE

Maimonides
Moses ben Maimon
(Rambam)
1135-1204
Guide to the Perplexed

Josef Caro
1488-1575
Shulkhan Aruk

Rabbi Yitzchak Luria [Arizal]
1534-1572

Baruch Spinoza
1632-1677

Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
1772-1811

Albert Dreyfus
1859-1935
"J'accuse" 1894

Sfas Emes
(Yehuda Leib Alter)
1847-1903

Theodor Herzl
1860-1904
Birth of Zionism

Shlomo Carlebach
1925-1994

Chofetz Chaim
R. Yisrael Meir Hacohen Kagan of Radin d.1933

Invasion of Iraq / Hussein Captured 2003

Security wall in Israel

  
Sarah, Rivka, Rachel, Leah Elijah - 800's BCE Esther 330 BCE(?) Yochanan ben Zakkai
Yavneh Academy
68-69 CE
 Hillel & Shammai
Onkelos (Targum)
1st Cent.CE		 Saadia Gaon
[First Hebrew Grammar book]
882-942 		Nachmanides
Moses ben Nachman
(Ramban)
1194-1270		 Sforno
(Obadiah ben Jacob)
1475-1550

Maharal - R. Yehuda Loewe ben Bezalel of Prague 1512-1906

Baal Shem Tov 1698-1760
Moses Chaim Luzzatto 1707-46

 Vilna Gaon
[Rabbi Eliyahu of Vilna]
1720-1797

David Ben-Gurion
1886-1973 (PM 1955)

Balfour Declaration 11/2/1917

 Golda Meir (PM 1969)
1898-1978

Benjamin Natanyahu 1949-

Oslo Accord
1993

  Exodus - 1280 BCE
Kingdoms of
Judah / Israel
932 BCE

Assyrians
defeat
Israel
721 BCE

 Babylonians
defeat
Judah
586 BCE		 John Hyrcanus
son of Simon Maccabee
1st century BCE		 Hanina ben Dosa
1st Cent. CE
 ALMOHADES
Moslem conquest of Spain 711 CE		 Rashi
(Solomon Yitzhaki)
1040-1105		 Spanish expulsion
1492 CE		 Jewish Amsterdam
thrives, 1600's		 Massive Jewish emigration to USA
1900-1930

Shoah
1933-1945

State of Israel
Founded 1948

6 Day War
1967

Infatida
1987 		Sharon visits
Temple Mount
9/28/00
Akeidah Sinai Babylonian Diaspora
800-600 BCE
 Alexander
327 BCE
(Hellenism) 		Rome conquers
Jerusalem
70 CE / Diaspora		 Karaite
movement
700's		 Jewish prosperity in Spain and France
800-1492 CE		 Orach Hayyim
(Jacob ben Asher)
1270-1343 CE
 Jews in Eastern Europe, Russia 1300 - Hasidim [Baal Shem Tov]
Mitnaggedim [Vilna Gaon]
1700's 		Conservative Judaism
early 1900's		 PLO formed 1964

Yitzach Rabin
murdered 1995

 Terror Attacks on
World Trade Center &
Pentagon 9/11/01		  
  Torah Prophets
800-500 BCE 		  Ezra
canonizes Torah
444 BCE		   Mishna completed 200 CE Palestinian
Talmud
(AKA Gemara)
400 CE		 Babylonian
Talmud
(AKA Gemara)
600 CE		 ALMORAVIDES
Fundamentalist Islamic Invasion of Spain (1147)		 Zohar 1280's
Moses de Leon		 Safed / Kabala Revival
1400's - Luria, Abulafia, Caro		 Orthodox / Reform
division early 1800's

Yom Kippur
War 1973

 1979
Treaty with
Egypt 		 
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