Inter-Biblical Period
Outlined by Date, Event, Individuals, & Political Powers
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- Fall of Jerusalem
- 586 BC
- 2 Kings 24
- Nebuchadezzer conquered Jerusalem
- The Assyrians conquered the northern 10 tribes ____ years
before
- Babylonian Exile
- Daniel and his three friends
- Esther
- Nehemiah and Ezra
- Medo-Persian Power
- Cyrus, conquered the Babylonians in 539 BC
- Daniel
- Cyrus the Great allowed the Exiles to return
- Nehemiah
- Return
- Cyrus the Great allowed the Exiles to return
- Temple/Wall rebuilt
- c. 445 Nehemiah
- The returnee's rebuild the walls of Jerusalem with much
opposition form the Jews who had not been carried into captivity
- Alexander of Macedon (Alexander the Great)
- 331 BC
- A Greek ruler who conquered K
- Persia
- Syria
- Jerusalem
- Egypt
- India
- ___
- ___
- Died at 32 in 323 BC
- After some dispute, his four generals divided his kingdom
- Four generals divide empire
- Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt
- Sleucid dynasty in Syria and east
- __
- __
- Ptolemaic
- 301 BC
- 122 years of mild rulers
- Seleucud
- Hellenization
- Process in which conquered countries were encouraged and at
times forced to adopt Greek K
- Language
- Culture
- Religious syncretism
- Sacrifice Pig on Altar
- December 167 BC
- Antiochus Epiphanes
- Maccabean Revolt begins
- 167 BC
- An elderly priest, Mattathias, who killed the commissioners
of Antiochus Epiphanes who were attempting to force the Jews to offer pagan sacrifices.
- A guerrilla type struggle was carried on by Mattathias' five
sons.K
- They tore down pagan altars
- Attacked at night
- Forcibly circumcised children
- After Mattathias died in 166 his son Judas continued the
struggle K
- Judas' nickname was Maccabees "the Hammer"
- Temple Cleansed
- December 164 BC
- Jewish festival, Hanukkah began K
- Syrian Power
- Demetrius II granted complete self rule in 142 BC
- Jewish Self Rule
- 142-63 BC, almost 80 years
- The Jewish nation lacked leaders that could unite the
people.
- Roman Rule
- 63 BC - 70 AD
- Attempted to allow "national" to rule their people
- Herod the Great
- Herod's Temple
- New Testament Events
- Fall of Jerusalem
- By Date
- 586 BC
- Babylonians over-run Jerusalem
- Destroy Solomon's Temple
- Take many people into exile in Babylon
- Some people are left
- 539 BC
- Medo-Persian Empire conquer Babylon
- Daniel 5
- 515 BC
- Temple rebuilt (only a shadow of Solomon's temple)
- c. 478
- 458
- c. 445 BC
- Nehemiah builds walls around Jerusalem
- c. 334-331 BC
- Alexander the Great's conquest
- Jerusalem falls to Alexander c. 332 BC
- 301 BC
- Ptolemaic rule (Egypt) K
- 122 years
- Time of peace for Jews
- Mild rulers
- No religious interference
- "Mild" Hellenization
- 198
- Seleucus rule (Syrian)
- Beginning of "vigorous" Hellenizatiopn K
- Caused conflict between Jews who were for and against Hellenization
- 175 BC
- Antiochus K
- Seleucid Ruler (Syrian)
- Antiochus Epiphanes "Manifest of God"
- Also called, Antiochus Epiphanes "Antiochus the
insane" by his victims
- 169 BC
- Antiochus Epiphanes sacked Temple
- Massacred Jewish citizens (Hasideans)
- Jewish persecution by Antiochus
- 168 BC
- Anticchus sacrifices a sow (pig) on the altar in Temple
- "Abomination of Desolation"
- 166 BC
- Maccabean Revolt begins K
- The Jews for sometime suffered persecution by Antiochus with
out retaliation.
- At Modein
- The Jewish priest Mattathias, kill the kings
representatives.
- 164 BC
- Temple cleansed after the Abomination of Desolutation
- Hanukkah is begun (John 10:22)
- c. 164-142
- Syrian rule K
- Weak rulers
- Civil Strife
- The Maccabeans won much and continued to "reclaim"
their land.
- 142 BC
- Jewish self rule begins
- Complete freedom
- c. 80 years
- Coin minted for Simeon, Mattathias' last son
- Jewish self rule was marred by the fact that the various
groups could not work together
- No one ruler could "weld" the nation together
- 134-104 BC
- John Hyrcanis, grandson of Mattathias K
- Had a career of conquest
- He compelled others to accept Judaism
- 104 BC
- Aristobylus begins rule K
- Cruel
- Killed his brother and mother
- He changed the theocracy in to a kingdom, calling himself
king
- reigned one (1) year
- c. 105-63
- Country torn by conflict between K
- Civil war
- Wreaked by civil strife and war they were easy pray for the
Romans
- Pompey conquered Jerusalem in 63 BC
- 63 BC
- Romans under leadership of Pompey conquered Jerusalem
- The Romans used "native" rulers
- Herod was the first
- 40-4 BC
- Herod the Great may king by the Romans
- Cruel
- Rebuild the Temple with more splendor than Solomon
- Used various projects to attempt to gain the good will of
the people
- c. 4 BC
- Herod the Great's territory divided K
- Archolaus: South Matthew 2:22
- Philip: Northeast, mild and peaceful
- Herod Antipus K
- Herod of the New Testament
- 70 AD
- Jerusalem is DESTROYED by the Romans
- By individual
- Last King
- NebuchadezzerK
- Babylonian ruler who conquered Jerusalem in 586 BC
- Daniel 1-4
- Very extensive building program in Babylon
- Daniel and Friends
- DarisK
- Persian King who conquered Babylon
- Daniel 5
- Esther K
- Jewish lady who saved her people from destruction by Persian
King Xerxes
- Esther 1-10
- Festival of Purim begins
- Cyrus The Great?
- Ezra
- Nehemiah
- Alexander the GreatK
- Began Greek military conquest in 334 BC
- Conquered Jerusalem
- Died in 323 BC
- PtolemeyK
- Alexander the Great general who ruled Egypt after his death.
- Generally dealt mildly with the Jews
- Seleucus
- Antiochus
- Mattathias
- Judas Maccabeas
- John Hyrcanis
- Aristobylus
- Herod the Great
- Political Power
- Babylonia
- Persia
- Greek
- Syrian
- Jewish
- Roman
Thursday, February 24, 2000
