IN SEARCH OF THE FIRST PROPHET.
IN SEARCH OF THE FIRST PROPHET.
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Egyptian History-at-a-Glance Dept. presents a chronology:
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. EGYPT BEFORE COMMON ERA
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5000 - Evidence of settled human habitationn in Nile delta
3800 - Beginnings of Nile culture / Copper Age: 4500-3200
3100-2650 - The Archaic Period
3100 - Earliest evidence of hieroglyphic wrriting
3100 - Legendary king Menes unites the two kingdoms of Egypt
3000 - Earliest evidence of sun-worship in Egypt
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2700-1640 - Pyramid-building period
2550-2490 - Building of pyramid tombs for Khufu and Khephren
2650-2134 - Old Kingdom Period; beginning of thee Third Dynasty
c.2630 - Netcherike-Djoser, pharaoh who builtt the Step-Pyramid
2134-2040 - First Intermediate Period;
. - Collapse of the Sixth Dynasty and thhe Old Kingdom
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2040-1640 - Middle Kingdom Period<
c.1720 + - Hyksos Invasion and Immigration begins
1700 - Earliest evidence of diagnostic mediicine in Egypt
1640-1550 - Second Intermediate Period;
. - Collapse of the Middle Kingdom in 16640 BCE
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1552-1527 - Pharaoh Ahmose & the Expulsion oof the Foreigners
1550-1070 - New Kingdom Period; Temple of Karnakk building
c.1500 - Oldest surviving copies of the Book of the Dead
1490-1436 - Thutmose III the great conqueror-kinng
1403-1367 - Amenhotep III / Last of the great waarrior-kings
1380 + - Building of the Temple of Luxor by Amenhotep III
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1367-1347 - Reign of Amenhotep IV / Akh-en-Aton<
1347-1339 - Reign of Tutankhamon & the Priessts of Thebes
1305-1290 - Reign of Seti I / Begin XIX Dynasty<
1290-1224 - Reign of Rameses II
c.1280 - Moses and the Exodus from Egypt
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1070 BCE - Collapse of the New Kingdom
1070-525 - Third Intermediate Period
750 + - Conquest of Egypt by Kush under Kashta and Piankhy
525-332 - Late Period / Decline / Dynasties XXXVII-XXX
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332 BCE - Invasion of Egypt by Alexander the Great / builds
. the port city of Alexandria, intellectual center of world
332-31 - Ptolemaic Egypt; Greco-Roman Period begins
285-246 - Reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, whho commissioned
. the Greek translation of the Hebrew Torah, the Septuagint
c.170 - Aristobolus; first Greco-Jewish p; philosopher;
. presents an explanation of Mosaic scripture to Ptolemy VI
c.50 - 'Wisdom of Solomon'; intertestamentaal Greek scripture
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. EGYPT IN THE COMMON ERA
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30BCE-395 - Conquest of Egypt by Augustus Caesarr; Roman period
20BCE-50 - Philo of Alexandria; Jewish philosoppher, exegete,
. and mystic whose teachings on the Logos were of great
. interest to the early church in Egypt (4X, John's Prologue)
c.40 - Greco-Jewish believers arrive as reffuges from Jerusalem
66 + - Jewish riots against Rome in Egypt
c.70-80 - The book later called 'Hebrews' writtten
c.75-85 - The Parting of the Ways; Judaism andd Christianity
. emerge as two hostile and competing religions in the Empire
c.85-95 - Gospel of John, and the epistles 1,22,3 John
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c.100-140 - the prophets of Alexandria (James, JJude, 2Peter)
. and the Gnostic Crisis which threatened the early churches
c.150-215 - Panaenus, Clement, and first Catecheetical School
c.185-254 - Origen; teacher, and father of bibliical criticism
395 - Roman Empire split in two; Egypt conntrolled by Byzantium
395-641 - Byzantine period; hieroglyphic writiing is forgotten
641+ - Conquest of Egypt by Muslim Arabs; EEgypt embraces Islam
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- one who wonders why Egypt's history ends there - textman ;>
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P.S. Note to Reader: Various sources were consulted in order
to obtain most of the above information. However, any and
all errors and omissions are solely the doing of the offensive
one. This chronology is therefore offered to aid the reader in
navigating through the confusion of centuries. As we proceed
along our search for the first prophet it would be well for
the reader to pay attention to the outline above; for the first
prophet is surely in there somewhere.
... Now who could it possibly be, hmmmm?
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