The Intertestamental Period

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The Intertestamental Period
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Amos
400 BC
5 BC?
Old Testament completed
Birth of Jesus
Malachi?
400 Silent Years
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Amos
400 BC
331 BC
5 BC?
Old Testament completed
Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
Birth of Jesus
Malachi?
Alexander the Great
Persian Empire
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Alexander the Great of Macedonia, 332 B.C.
Tyre ?
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• Fall of Tyre on July 29. 332 B.C.
• Seven month siege

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Alexander at Jerusalem
And when the book of Daniel was showed him,
wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks
should destroy the empire of the Persians, he
supposed that himself was the person intended
and he was then glad. (Antiquities 1185).
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The World of Alexander

• Cultural interchange from east to west
• Scientific learning
• Hellenization
• Greek language
• Alexanders death

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Cassander
Lysimachus
Antigonus the one-eyed
Seleucus
Ptolemy
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Ptolemy II Philadelphus

• Pharos Lighthouse
• Library of Alexandria
• Septuagint
• War with the Seleucids

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Antiochus III the Great
Ptolemy
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Antiochus IV Epiphanes

• Hostage in Rome
• Escape
• Campaign against Egypt

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Antiochus IV Epiphanes

• Hostage in Rome
• Escape
• Campaign against Egypt

• First revolt in Judah

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Antiochus imposed the following Regulations

• Jews could not assemble for prayer
• Observance of the Sabbath was forbidden
• Possession of the Scriptures was illegal
• Circumcision was illegal
• Dietary laws illegal
• Pagan sacrifices mandated

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Antiochus IV

• Maccabean Revolt

• 167 B.C.
• Mattathias
• Temple liberated

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Amos
400 BC
331 BC
167 BC
5 BC?
Old Testament completed
Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
Maccabbee Rebellion
Birth of Jesus
Malachi?
Hasmonean kings
Alexander the Great
Rome
Persian Empire
Hellenistic Kings

• Ptolemies
• Seleucids

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Mattathias
Johanan
Judas
Simon
Eleazer
Jonathan

• Simon becomes new leader
• Judah recognized as a free state 142 B.C.
• High Priest

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Mattathias
Johanan
Judas
Simon
Eleazer
Jonathan

• John Hyrcanus becomes leader
• Samaria, Galilee Idumea conquered
• Forced conversions of conquered peoples

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Two New Jewish Parties

• Hasidim The Pious Ones
• Pharisees
• Hellenists Greek influence
• Sadducees

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Mattathias
Johanan
Judas
Simon
Eleazer
Jonathan
Salome Alexandria
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Pompey the Great

• Commissioned to clear the seas of piracy
• Conquests in Syria
• Conquest of Jerusalem
• Territorial arrangements

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Decapolis
Samaria
Judea
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Roman Civil War
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Antipateras Procurator
Herod
Phasael
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Parthians
? Petra
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Marc Antony
Octavius
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Herod the Great

• 40 - 4 B.C.

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Zerubbabels Temple
Seleucid Addition
Hasmonean Expansion
Herods Temple
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Caesarea
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Herods Domestic Troubles

• It is better to be Herods uV
• Than to be Herods uioV

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Amos
400 BC
331 BC
167 BC
4 BC
Old Testament completed
Alexander conquers the Persian Empire
Maccabbee Rebellion
Death of Herod the Great
Malachi?
Pompey the Great
Hasmonean kings
Alexander the Great
Rome
Persian Empire
Hellenistic Kings

• Ptolemies
• Seleucids

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