ANCIENT JERUSALEM TIMELINE (3)

(Message by Tanny Keng)

DATE (B.C.)

HISTORIC EVENT

500s - 400s		Ezra, temple priests and Levites known as The Great Assembly complete the canonization of the Old Testament part of the Bible.
332		Instead of fighting a bloody battle the city surrenders to Alexander the Great. Alexander spares the city.
175		Antiochus IV Epiphanes becomes King of the Seleucid Empire. He begins to force Greek culture into Judea and outlaws the Sabbath and circumcision. Antiochus also sacks Jerusalem and erects an altar to Zeus in the Second Temple.
167		The Maccabean revolt against the Seleucids is started by a Jewish priest named Mattathias.
164		The Maccabees, led by Mattathias' son Judas Maccabeus, captures Jerusalem and rededicates the temple.
63		The Roman Republic, led by Pompey, occupies Palestine.

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