Marked Jerusalem

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Ancient Israel and Judah

Two small kingdoms in the hills of the southern Levant, Israel and Judah, were caught between Egypt, Assyria and Babylon. Their history, and how the Hebrew Bible came to be written, are known from texts and archaeology that do not always agree.

Date
About 1000 to 538 BCV · The Iron Age and growing states
Place
Jerusalem · Samaria · Lachish · MegiddoThe Middle East
Laid out as
A civilisationA society seen from the inside: its rulers, places, work, beliefs and daily life, laid out like the rooms of a house.
Lessons
5 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. ITwo kingdoms
  2. IIThe Tel Dan inscription
  3. IIIHezekiah’s tunnel
  4. IVExile in Babylon
  5. VArchaeology and the Bible

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Hezekiah
  • Josiah
  • Jeremiah

Objects

  • The Tel Dan stele
  • The Siloam inscription
  • Lachish letters

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1000 BC to 538 BC. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?