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This is a list of notable events in the development of Jewish history. All dates are given according to the Common Era, not the Hebrew calendar.
The earliest and most important of all Jewish chronologies extant is the Seder ʿolam rabbaʾ (“Order of the World”), transmitted, according to Talmudic tradition, by Rabbi Yosi ben Halafta in the 2nd century ad. The author was possibly the first to use the rabbinic Era of the Creation.
Adapted from the Codex Judaica, a chronological index of Jewish history covering 5764 years of Biblical, Talmudic, & post-Talmudic history by Rabbi Mattis Kantor.
- Mattis Kantor
Judaism has three essential and related elements: study of the written Torah; the recognition of Israel as the chosen people and the recipients of the law at Mount Sinai; and the requirement that Israel and their descendants live according to the laws outlined in the Torah.
Documents which have not been preserved or seen as authoritative by later Jews, are marked with an asterisk (*). Pronounced: MISH-nuh, Origin: Hebrew, code of Jewish law compiled in the first centuries of the Common Era. Together with the Gemara, it makes up the Talmud.
Abraham and his clan left Ur, near the Euphrates delta (today Tell al‑Muqayyar) and, after passing through the major centers of civilization of the time–Babylon and Mari–arrived in Haran, approximately 2000 miles from their point of departure.
Judaism originates nearly 4,000 years ago in the Middle East with a couple named Abraham and Sarah, whom G‑d selected to start a new people, the chosen nation. G‑d commanded them to relocate to a new land (which would eventually become the Land of Israel) that He would show them.
