Between the Testaments
~430–5 BCE · Event
The four centuries between Malachi and Matthew: Greek rule, the Maccabees, Rome and Herod set the stage for the New Testament.
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- The Crucifixion (33)
- The Resurrection (33)
- The Nativity: Jesus is born in Bethlehem (5 BCE)
- The Creation (4004 BCE)
- The Life of Jesus (5 BCE)
- The parting of the Red Sea (1446 BCE)
- Moses the lawgiver (1526 BCE)
- The Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai (1446 BCE)
Around 430 BCE
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Cleisthenes' reforms (508 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)