Jewish History Timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 19 Dec 2023
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Created byShlomo Enkin Lewis
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Events
Disclaimer and Approach to HistoricityHow to Use This ChartSplit of Karaite Judaism and Rabbinic JudaismSplit of Christianity and JudaismSplit of Samaritanism and Judaism [historical]Split of Samaritanism and Judaism [Jewish tradition]Split of Samaritanism and Judaism [Samaritan tradition]Expulsion from SpainHolocaustDestruction of the Second TempleDestruction of the First TempleExpulsions from the Middle East/North AfricaHannukah storyPurim storyPassover, Sukkot and Shavuot storiesLag BaOmer story (Rabbi Akiva/Bar Kochba)Grouping
Eras of Jewish Law
Movements in Jewish Thought
Periods
HasidismHasidei AshkenazSabbateanism & FrankismHaskalahLurianic KaballahHellenismKalamMaimonidean AristotelianismCordoveran KaballahEarly KaballahMerkava Mysticism and Hekhalot literatureMussar MovementGrouping
Denominational movements
Political movements
Sectarian Movements
Centers of Jewish Religious Life/Authority
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Jewish Temples in Jerusalem
Sanhedrin After the Temple's Destruction
Babylonian Yeshivot
Influential Local and Regional Centers of Jewish Law and Learning
Mishkan [biblical]
Additional Jewish/Israelite Temples
Beta Israel Centers of Law and Learning
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Hoharwa MonasteryJewish/Israelite Political Entities
Periods
"Missing Years"Grouping
Biblical Jewish/Israelite Sovereign Entities
Post-Biblical Jewish Sovereign Entities
Jewish Autonomous Communal Governments (Regional or State-Level)
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Late Hasmoneans and HerodiansCouncil of the Four LandsYehud MedinataExilarch (Resh Galuta)NasiNehemiah ben Hushiel's autonomyJewish Autonomous OblastJewish National Council (Yishuv)Hakham Bashi of the Ottoman EmpireNagid of EgyptEthnarch and Gerousia of AlexandriaExilarch of DamascusNagid of GranadaRab Mayor of CastileYehud under GedalyaSuriname AutonomyHistorical Israelite Sovereign Entities
Samaritan Israelite Autonomous Governments and Sovereign Entities
Exilic Periods in Jewish Tradition
Significant Jewish/Israelite Texts
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Major Written Legal Works
Periods
Tanakh [traditional dates of composition]MishnaGemaraMishneh TorahShulchan Aruch & Beit YosefSefer HaHalakhot (Rif)Arba'ah Turim & Piskei HaRoshHalakhot GedolotMishna BerurahShulchan Aruch HaravYabia Omer & Yehave Da'atBen Ish HaiIgros MosheToseftaMinor TractatesTanakh [likely historical dates of composition]Grouping
Major Commentaries
Midrash and Aggadah
Beta Israel Biblical and Legal Works
Non-Religious Literature
Samaritan Israelite Post-Biblical Works
Broad Historical Eras
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