Timeline revised to account for Greek, Roman, Judean and Christian history, but not Christian mythology

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The TaNaKh was translated into Greek (the LXX), some time between 283 BCE and 246 BCE.

Someone who represented himself as “Aristeas” wrote something that is not a letter to someone who is represented as “Philocrates.”  The document includes a description of Temple praxis, and a brief recounting of how the LXX was translated.

Philo (20 BCE- 50CE) wrote a collection of treatises on a variety of subjects pertaining to Judean text and ownership of that text.  Philo makes statements that seem to suggest Judeans should not be owners of their own texts, provides a basis for “virgin birth,” constructs a template for a “last supper,” indicates that the “Word” has a biological relationship to God.

Greco-Romans now had access to a large quantity of Judean texts concerning “philosophy” and praxis.

The First Jewish War occurred (66-73CE).  Titus destroyed the Temple.  Judeans were not expelled from Jerusalem or from Judean.

The Second Jewish War (the Kitos Revolt) occurred (115-7 CE).  Judeans were still not expelled from the territory.

130 CE, Antinous died.  Hadrian rebuilt the Temple and rededicated it to Jupiter.

Tacitus and Suetonius write histories which locate “Chrestos/Christus” around the time of Claudius.  Suetonius claims Claudius expelled them from Rome.  No edicts of Claudius’ survive to confirm this contention.

The Third Jewish War (the Bar Cochba Revolt) occurred (132-5 CE).  The Judean population was nearly destroyed, Jerusalem was destroyed.  Judeans were expelled from Jerusalem and from Judean.

The earliest “gospel” texts date from around now.  The texts all associate their hero with Jacob, and the statement in Numbers that a “star will come from Jacob.”  Bar Cochba means “son of a star.”

Justin Martyr wrote his “First Apology” to Hadrian’s successor, explaining who “Christians” were, how they differed from Jews and from pagans, mentions “Barchochebas” and complains that he had been mean to “Christians,” references “chrestians” but does not seem to associate the word with his own sect.