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. . . which, incidentally, starts this Sunday -- I'm both really nervous and really excited -- is that I'm putting together a timeline to get all the events in Jewish history in order, and with a sense of how long they took and how far apart they were, and I'm including other events from around the world to put things in context.
And I've never seen a lot of them juxtaposed.
I mean, I guess most people are aware that Lao Tse came before Confucius, but that their lives overlapped -- but, for instance, were they both before or after Zoroaster? Or the Buddha?
Was the Babylonian exile of the Jews before or after the first Olympics, or the founding of Rome, or the Golden Age of Athens under Pericles? For that matter, obviously the first Olympics happened before the Golden Age of Athens, but was THAT before or after the founding of Rome?
The fact that the "discovery" of the Book of Deuteronomy, which allowed the Israelite people to have a formalized code of laws happened in the same year that Draco formulated HIS formalized code of laws . . . that's kind of neat.
And I've never seen a lot of them juxtaposed.
I mean, I guess most people are aware that Lao Tse came before Confucius, but that their lives overlapped -- but, for instance, were they both before or after Zoroaster? Or the Buddha?
Was the Babylonian exile of the Jews before or after the first Olympics, or the founding of Rome, or the Golden Age of Athens under Pericles? For that matter, obviously the first Olympics happened before the Golden Age of Athens, but was THAT before or after the founding of Rome?
The fact that the "discovery" of the Book of Deuteronomy, which allowed the Israelite people to have a formalized code of laws happened in the same year that Draco formulated HIS formalized code of laws . . . that's kind of neat.