Timeeline

Question 1

When did biblical history start? Why?

Answer 1

3000 BC, demitic culture flourished in mesopotamian culture

Question 2

When did Gen 12-50 take place? What was happening then?

Answer 2

1900 to 1300 BC. People were migrating, setting for earliest traditions of God revealing Himself as the God of their fathers. Latter half spent by israelites in Egypt

Question 3

When did the exodus and march to canaan happen?

Answer 3

~1290-1235 BC. Main events of old testament happen here- Israelites are revealed as God’s chosen people, real beginning as 12 tribes as 1 nation

Question 4

Judges

Answer 4

Happened post exodus, around 1250-1020 BC. Period of fighting, upheavals, political tension causing formation of a single nation by invasion of Canaan (by tribes under joshua)

Question 5

Monarchy of David and Solomon

Answer 5

1020-930 BC. High point of Israel’s power/prestige, Israel rose from tribe to empire. Tensions between tribal values and those of new kings.

Question 6

When did Israel split into Judah and Israel? Why? Who was defeated?

Answer 6

930-722 BC. Split because of different interpretations of past traditions. Israel

Question 7

What happened when Judah was the only surviving part of Israel? When was this?

Answer 7

Submitted to Assyria’s power. Josiah (reigned from 640-609) resisted the empire, overthrew assyrian rule. judah destroyed in 586/587

Question 8

When was Judah destroyed? How?

Answer 8

2 invasions, 586/587 BC

Question 9

Babylonian Exile

Answer 9

585-539 BCE

Question 10

What ended the babylonian exile?

Answer 10

Defeat of babylon in 539 BC, Persian knig cyrus the great let them returnr home

Question 11

What did Ezra and Nehemia do?

Answer 11

Began religious reform in postexilic period (539-332 BC) that leads to canonization of scriptures and religious practices based on the Torah