History Crash Course #36: Timeline: From Abraham to Destruction of the Temple

So far so good! Thank you again R. Spiro and aish.com for making Jewish history come alive with these informative and well-written articles.
It seems throughout these articles that G-d's guiding hand is involved with our history.

Thank you for putting events into perspective that makes it easy for "not so learned" Jews like myself to understand.

Thank you very much,dear Aish!
All the best.

I am thoroughly enjoying the Jewish History series. Thank you for adding to my knowledge.

At my first glance the 150 year discrepancy in the timeline around Israel's civil division surprised me but then I saw the note about Lecture 21. The short quote from Peter James about the timeline adjustment is not convincing especially when the 'traditional' timeline explains so much about modern history. I find the 586 BCE Temple destruction date difficult to adjust. I will have to read Centuries in Darkness and get the full argument.

I am so impressed by the engaging, historical lessons given here. I am planning to go to a synagogue for the first time in my life this evening, God-willing. So, I am trying to gain some perspective on the history leading up to the current, world-wide worship of the LORD of Israel (so diverse and yet so unchanged, in some respects), since he is also my God. There is a possibility that I have Jewish ancestors, and so I find this information very relevant and whether that proves to be the case or not, I will always see it as a part of my own history. I can't stop reading, it is so fascinating...thanks so much for compiling and sharing this!

Thanks for the diligence in presenting this information here. I will be back often to "take the course"...

This is a wonderful and informative series, and i am enjoying it immensly. I realize that this is Jewish history, but I would like to see the significant dates in early Chrixianity, and how they effected the jews at the time.
thanks,
sam socher

Very inspiring indeed. By reading Israel History, I came to understand the world history better. Every thing that falls to the Jewish nation is bound to affect the world at large. Thank you for all the effort to mantain this web-site. It has changed my life perspective. Well done. G-d bless you as people. The bottom truth is that the world now is not fighting Israel; it is fighting G-d. Thanks again from the depths of my soul.

Returned today from a visit to Jerusalem. Saw the beatiful new facilties Aish is constructing opposite The Kotel. For all the good that Aish HaTorah does, the timeline for this millenium should include the emergence of Aish HaTorah as a force for honesty, literacy, mutual understanding and tolerance.

At this point, with the Temple destroyed and the bulk - not all - of the Jewish people about to go into exile, it is appropriate to offer congratulations to Rabbi Spiro for providing a "potted history" which never descends into triteness or oversimplification. Now that we have left the "Biblical" phase of Jewish history (not forgetting, though, Biblical prophecies of the return of The People to The Land), I'm looking forward to the rabbi's use of "secular" and, no doubt, rabbinical sources to deal with the 2,000 years still to come. Thanks a lot; I don't know what I'm going to do when the series ends and there is no weekly edition of Rabbi Ken's History. Great work.
Phil Kruse, Australia.