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c. 2000 BCE — Present · Where scripture meets the spade
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A · c. 2000 — 1550 BCE
Middle Bronze Age
Urban civilizations rise across the Levant; Amorite migrations reshape the Near East. The world Abraham was born into.
B · c. 1550 — 1200 BCE
Late Bronze Age
Egyptian dominance over Canaan; the cosmopolitan Amarna world; collapse of palace civilizations around 1200 BCE.
C · c. 1200 — 1000 BCE
Iron Age I
Highland villages multiply across Canaan; the emergence of Israel as a distinct people in the archaeological record.
D · c. 1000 — 586 BCE
Iron Age II
The age of kingdoms — the United Monarchy, the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah, ending with Babylonian destruction.
E · 586 BCE — 324 CE
Classical Antiquity
Persian, Hellenistic, Hasmonean, and Roman rule. Two temples destroyed; rabbinic Judaism takes shape.
F · 324 — 1500 CE
Medieval Period
Talmudic academies; Islamic and Christian rule; Sephardi golden age; Ashkenazi heartlands; the Spanish expulsion.
G · 1500 — Present
Modern Era
Mysticism and Hasidism, emancipation, Zionism, the Holocaust, the founding of Israel, and the ingathering of exiles.
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