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| Avraham born in the city of Ur and brings his family to Canaan. Isaac stays in Canaan all his life. Jacob moves to Egypt during a famine with his entire family. The children of Israel are enslaved in Egypt. |
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| Exodus from Egypt. Giving of the Torah at Sinai. |
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| Conquest of Canaan, distribution of the land among the 12 tribes. The children of Israel led by Joshua and by the Judges. |
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| The prophet Samuel anoints King Saul, first king of Israel. |
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| King Solomon lives. First Temple is constructed. |
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| The kingdom is split into Judea in the south and Israel in the north. |
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| Prophecies of Elijah, Amos, Hosea, and Isaiah. |
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| Northern Israel and the Shomron conquered by Assyria; loss of ten tribes. |
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| Destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians; Jerusalem destroyed; Jews exiled to Babylonia. |
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| King Cyrus of Persia allows the Jews to return to Israel and rebuild the Beit Mikdash. |
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| Second Beit Mikdash built. |
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| Ezra and Nechemia lead the Jews. |
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| Ezra holds public reading of the Torah. |
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| Hellenic (Greek) culture introduced to Israel after Alexander the Great conquers Persia in 399 BCE. |
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| Alexander the Great dies; Seleucid control over Israel. |
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| Maccabees revolt against Antiochus Epiphanies and the Syrian Greeks. |
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| Rome invited to Jerusalem. |
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| Second Temple is destroyed; Sanhedrin established in Yavneh. |
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| Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome. |
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| Betar falls, revolt ends, end of Jewish sovereignty in the land of Israel until 1948. |
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| Mishnah redacted by R' Yehuda HaNasi. |
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| Tosefta redacted by R' Chiya and R' Oshaya. |
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| Halachic midrashim are redacted. |
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| Talmud Yerushalmi redacted by Amoraim of Eretz Yisrael. Aggadic midrash collections redacted. |
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| Talmud Bavli redacted by Amoraim of Bavel. |
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