Jewish History Timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 19 Dec 2023
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Created by Shlomo Enkin Lewis
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Events
Disclaimer and Approach to Historicity How to Use This Chart Split of Karaite Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism Split of Christianity and Judaism Split of Samaritanism and Judaism [historical] Split of Samaritanism and Judaism [Jewish tradition] Split of Samaritanism and Judaism [Samaritan tradition] Expulsion from Spain Holocaust Destruction of the Second Temple Destruction of the First Temple Expulsions from the Middle East/North Africa Hannukah story Purim story Passover, Sukkot and Shavuot stories Lag BaOmer story (Rabbi Akiva/Bar Kochba) Grouping
Eras of Jewish Law
Movements in Jewish Thought
Periods
Hasidism Hasidei Ashkenaz Sabbateanism & Frankism Haskalah Lurianic Kaballah Hellenism Kalam Maimonidean Aristotelianism Cordoveran Kaballah Early Kaballah Merkava Mysticism and Hekhalot literature Mussar Movement Grouping
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
Periods
Hoharwa Monastery Jewish/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)
Periods
Late Hasmoneans and Herodians Council of the Four Lands Yehud Medinata Exilarch (Resh Galuta) Nasi Nehemiah ben Hushiel's autonomy Jewish Autonomous Oblast Jewish National Council (Yishuv) Hakham Bashi of the Ottoman Empire Nagid of Egypt Ethnarch and Gerousia of Alexandria Exilarch of Damascus Nagid of Granada Rab Mayor of Castile Yehud under Gedalya Suriname Autonomy Historical 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] Mishna Gemara Mishneh Torah Shulchan Aruch & Beit Yosef Sefer HaHalakhot (Rif) Arba'ah Turim & Piskei HaRosh Halakhot Gedolot Mishna Berurah Shulchan Aruch Harav Yabia Omer & Yehave Da'at Ben Ish Hai Igros Moshe Tosefta Minor Tractates Tanakh [likely historical dates of composition] Grouping
Major Commentaries
Midrash and Aggadah
Periods
Midrash of Philo Ein Yaakov Shemot Rabbah Bereshit Rabbah Sefer Haagadah Tanhuma / Yelamdenu Devarim Rabbah Vayikra Rabbah Bamidbar Rabbah Pesikta deRav Kahana Seder Olam Rabbah Shir HaShirim Rabbah The Red Tent Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer Grouping
Vernacular Commentaries on Tanakh
Beta Israel Biblical and Legal Works
Non-Religious Literature
Samaritan Israelite Post-Biblical Works
Broad Historical Eras
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