Jewish Timelines

JEWISH TIMELINES


	Calendars			Cumulative
Description of Events in Jewish History	Hebrew	Gregorian	Era	Gregorian Years

Today's Year	5768	2008	CE

Creation of the universe in 6-days (according to Judasim)	1	1	BCE	0
Noah and the flood (according to Judaism, 17th of Cheshvan - October)	1656	2896	BCE	2896
Abraham born	1948	3188	BCE	3188
Moses (Moshe Rabeinu) received Torah at Mt Sinai (according to Judaism, the 6th of Sivan)	2448	3688	BCE	3688
King Solomon builds Temple	2935	4175	BCE	4175
Temple Destroyed	3338	4578	BCE	4578
2nd Temple Built & also the of prophecy	3408	4648	BCE	4648
End of BCE (Before Common Era, before Jesus)	3759	4999	BCE	4999
CE (Common Era - Jesus) starts	3760	1	CE	5000
2nd Temple destroyed	3828	69	CE	5068
Start Jewish "Era of Mishna" (1st written component of Oral Torah)	3870	111	CE	5110
End "Era of Mishna"	3948	189	CE	5188
Start "Talmudic Era" (Gemara: 2nd written component of Oral Torah)	3948	189	CE	5188
Ravina II finished editing the Gemara portion of the Talmud Babylonia	4234	475	CE	5474
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (aka Rashi) born: wrote biblical commentary	4800	1041	CE	6040
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (aka Maimonides) born: wrote "his" code of Jewish law - Mishneh Torah	4895	1136	CE	6135

Total Years since Creation -- According to Judaism	5768	2008	CE	7008


Talmud: The written compendium of Judaism's Oral Torah — Law and Gemara. The central text of Judaism.

Judaism says there are two parts to a Talmud:

The Mishnah (c. 200 CE), the first written synopsis of the Oral Torah; and

The Gemara (c. 500 CE), a written synopsis of rabbinic discussion of the Mishnah and other writings. It often addresses other subjects and broadly comments on the entire Hebrew bible (Tanakh).

Two Talmud editions were produced:

#1 Talmud Yerushalmi: produced in Jerusalem/Palestine c400 CE and
#2 Talmud Bavli: produced in Babylonia c500 (CE).

*The Babylonian Talmud* is more comprehensive and sophisticated than the *Talmud Yerushalmi. Judaism treats this edition as "the" authoritative work partly because, by the year 1,000 CE, Babylonian Jewry had grown to be predominate while the land of Israel community had significantly declined. Was the first recollection of God's Oral Torah — Talmud Yerushalmi* — incorrect? Why was another recollection needed?


BCE: The years "Before the Common or Christian Era."
CE: "Common or Christian Era" (began in Rome, 525 CE) begins with year 1 of the Gregorian calendar.
Gregorian calendar: The official global standard calendar.

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