Imagining the beginning: the call to Abraham, ̃1500 BCE?
Liberation from slavery: the exodus from Egypt, ̃1200 BCE?
The covenant: revelation a Sinai, ̃1200 BCE?
Entering the Promised Land: crossing the Jordan, ̃1200 BCE?
Establishing a state: "Give us a king!" ̃1000 BCE
the fall of Israel: exile of the ten tribes, 722 BCE
The Babylonian exile: the destruction of the first temple, 586 BCE
The second temple: return to Zion, 538 BCE
Confronting the challenge of Hellenism: the Hasmonean revolt, 167 BCE
Roman rule: the great revolt and destruction of the second temple, 70 CE
Finding a messianic equilibrium: the Bar Kokhba revolt, 132-135 CE
The oral law becomes literature: the Mishnah, ̃200 CE
The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry: Maimonides, 900-1200 CE
The rise of Eastern European Jewry: the Crusades, 1100-1300 CE
Kabbalah enters the mainstream: Nahmanides, ̃1300 CE
The end of Iberian Jewry: conversion, expulsion, diaspora, 1300-1600 CE
The rise and collapse of Polish Jewry: the Cossack revolt, 1648 CE
The rise of Hasidism: the Baal Shem Tov and his disciples, ̃1750 CE
The challenge of emancipation: the Napoleonic Sanhedrin, ̃1780-1880 CE
Reform and reaction: the Hamburg temple, 1818 CE
The rise of North American Jewry: the great migration, 1881-1924 CE
Jewish nationalism: Theodor Herzl, 1896 CE
The secular Zionist movement: Ahad Ha'am, ̃1900 CE
Zionist settlement of the land of Israel: first and second Aliyot, 1882-1914 CE
The destruction of European Jewry: the Holocaust, 1933-45 CE
The Jewish state: proclaiming and defending independence, 1948 CE
East meets West: the mass Aliyah from North Africa and the Mideast, 1949-64 CE
Benefits and costs of military power: the Six-Day War, 1967 CE
The feminist revolution: the ordination of women, 1972 CE
The fall of the Iron Curtain: the liberation of Soviet Jewry, 1989 CE
