Creation to period of Forefathers


Creation to period of Forefathers

Year/Time Frame

Canaan/Eretz Israel

Jews Elsewhere

Jewish Culture

General History

Before 1800 BCE

 

Early Bronze Age

 

3760

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3500

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3100

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2105

 

Middle Bronze  Age

 

19th Century BCE

    1813

The Forefathers

 

1803

 

 

 

 

 

 

18th Century BCE

1765

1743

 

 

1713

 

1677

 

 

 

17th Century BCE

 

 

 

1650

 

 

 

 

Creation of the world, Adam and Eve (according to tradition)

Abel is herdsman  1.(Gen. 4:2)

Cain is farmer 2.(Gen. 4:2)

 

 

 

Village culture especially in Negev and Jordan Valley. Copper implements.

 

 

Diverse pottery

Fortified cities.

Cultic "high places"

Early western Semitic spoken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abraham born. [a]

 

Sarah born.    Land of Canaan subject to Egyptian  control.

 

 

 

Abraham settled in Canaan.

 

Isaac born.

 

"Akeidat Yitzchak"- Isaac prepared for sacrifice. (6) [d]

 

Hyksos govern Egypt  (-1650)

 

According to one source (8) Hebrew slavery in Egypt began.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 Generations from Noah to Abraham

 

 

 

 

 

7 Noachide laws: Idolatry; Heresy; Murder; Sexual prohibitions; Stealing; Dismembering living animals; Courts of Justice [b]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First possible nation of Jerusalem

(Yero-Shalem) (7. Gen 22:14)

 

 

Sheep domestication (N. Iraq) Settlements in Aria Minor characterized by pottery. Agriculture: wheat, barley.

Village culture, pottery, crafts, in upper Mesopotamia, later Syria and Mediterranean coast.

Custom of burying dead with possessions -Egypt.

Early writing (Sumarians)

Jericho- civilized; animal domestication, cereal crops, tools, foreign trade [g]

Sumerians (Shinar? - 3.(Gen. 11:12) -cities, irrigation canals, bronze work; early writing. [c]

Civilization in Phoenicia and beyond. Egypt: Hieroglyphics

 

The great flood 4.(Gen. 7:5-7) [f]

Invasion of Greece (1300)

3rd dynasty of Ur (1300)

Kaneshi center of Assyrian colonies.

Marduk is god in Babylon.

 

 

 

Dispersion from Babel (1765)(7)

First tombs in Egypt; 12th dynasty Hammorabi code in Babylon (e)

Decimal system in Crete.

Beginnings of Persian Empire.

Bronze age Britain (Stonehenge).

Huangho culture in China.

Teutonic settlement in    S. Norway.

Water dam  in India.

 


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