The Archaeological and Political Periods

Surrounding the New Testament Period

Dr. David Battle
All Rights Reserved, 2018

Alexander the Great

331 - 323 B.C.

Ptolemey Philadelphus Herod the Great Jerusalem falls

commissions the translation of Bar Cochba revolts
Judas Maccabeus dies (4 B.C.). to Titus (135 A.D.).
the Tanak into the Greek (70 A.D.).
language. The Septuagint, purifies the Jerusalem
LXX, is translated (280 - 250 temple (164 B.C.).
B.C.).
Pompey annexes
Antiochus IV desecrates Judah for Rome in 63 B.C.
the Jerusalem temple
(168 B.C.).

400 B.C. 300 B.C. 200 B.C. 100 B.C. O 100 A.D. 200 A.D.

PERSIAN SELEUCID A
HASMONEAN HERODIAN RULE JEWISH
PTOLOMEY RULE C

RULE RULE
C
RULE 37 B.C. - 93 A.D. REVOLT ROMAN RULE
323-198 B.C. A
B

538-330 E 135 - 40 B.C. A.D. 66-73 63 B.C. - 330 A.D.

198-166 A
N
B.C.
REVOLT 166-135
B.C.

PERSIAN HELLENISTIC PERIOD ROMAN PERIOD

PERIOD 330 - 64 B.C. 64 B.C. - 33O A.D.
586-33O B.C.

400 YEARS OF SILENCE

INTERTESTAMETAL PERIOD (c. 430 B.C.-C. 4 B.C.)
or
SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD (516 B.C.-70 A.D.)