History of ancient Israel and Judah Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Periods== * [[Iron Age#Near East timeline|Iron Age]] I: 1150<ref>The Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities,[https://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/archaeology.megiddo Megiddo.] in Archaeology & History of the Land of the Bible International MA in Ancient Israel Studies, Tel Aviv University: "...Megiddo has...a fascinating picture of state-formation and social evolution in the Bronze Age (ca. 3500-1150 B.C.) and Iron Age (ca. 1150-600 B.C.)..."</ref>β950 BCE<ref>Finkelstein, Israel, (2019).[https://www.academia.edu/42018894/Israel_Finkelstein_First_Israel_Core_Israel_United_Northern_Israel_Near_Eastern_Archaeology_82_2019_pp._8-15 First Israel, Core Israel, United (Northern) Israel], in Near Eastern Archaeology 82.1 (2019), p. 8: "...The late Iron I system came to an end during the tenth century BCE..."</ref> * Iron Age II: 950<ref>Finkelstein, Israel, and Eli Piasetzky, 2010. [https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/D4B3131D98CD0B75F6DC544DFF9E2D48/S003382220005640Xa.pdf/iron_iiia_transition_in_the_levant_a_reply_to_mazar_and_bronk_ramsey_and_a_new_perspective.pdf "The Iron I/IIA Transition in the Levant: A Reply to Mazar and Bronk Ramsey and a New Perspective"], in Radiocarbon, Vol 52, No. 4, The Arizona Board of Regents in behalf of the University of Arizona, pp. 1667 and 1674: "The Iron I/IIA transition occurred during the second half of the 10th century...We propose that the late Iron I cities came to an end in a gradual process and interpret this proposal with Bayesian Model II...The process results in a transition date of 915-898 BCE (68% range), or 927-879 BCE (95% range)..."</ref>β586 BCE The Iron Age II period is followed by periods named after conquering empires, such as the Neo-Babylonians becoming the "godfathers" for the Babylonian period ({{BCE|586β539}}). Other academic terms often used are: * ''First Temple'' or ''Israelite period'' ({{circa|1000}}{{snd}}{{BCE|586}})<ref>[https://www.biu.ac.il/JS/rennert/history_3.html Jerusalem in the First Temple period (c.1000-586 B.C.E.)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201009154903/https://www.biu.ac.il/JS/rennert/history_3.html|date=9 October 2020}}, Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan University, last modified 1997, accessed 11 February 2019</ref> The [[return to Zion]] and the construction of the [[Second Temple]] marked the beginning of the [[Second Temple period]] ({{circa|{{BCE|516}}}}{{snd}}70 CE). Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page