Intertestamental Period

  • 587 BCE

    Fall of Jerusalem

  • 559 BCE

    Cyrus became King

  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great's Death

  • 301 BCE

    Battle of Ipsus

    Antigonus defeated
  • Period: 200 BCE to 100

    Apocrypha Written

    includes more than a dozen noncanonical books
  • 175 BCE

    Antiochus IV became Ruler

  • Period: 166 BCE to 63 BCE

    The Maccabean/Hasmonean Period

  • Period: 63 BCE to 70

    The Domination of Rome

  • 37 BCE

    Herod Conquers Jerusalem

  • Period: 37 BCE to 4 BCE

    The Rule of Herod the Great

  • Period: 4 BCE to 39

    Antipas Rules

  • Period: 4 BCE to 66

    The Rule of Herod's Descendants

  • Period: 4 BCE to 6

    Archelaus Rules

  • Period: 4 BCE to 34

    Phillip Rules

  • Period: 37 to 66

    Herod Agrippa I and II Rule

  • Period: 66 to 70

    The Jewish War and the Destruction of Jerusalem