Intertestamental period

• Beginnings of the Jewish diaspora and Hellenistic Judaism • Establishment of the first synagogues • Change in common language from Biblical Hebrew to Aramaic and Hellenistic Greek • The events of the Maccabean Revolt, as documented in the Books of the Maccabees • Reign of the Hasmonean and Herodian dynasties, followed by Roman rule • Production of the Greek Septuagint, the first translation of the Hebrew scriptures into another language • Writing of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the rediscovery of which became central to modern and contemporary Biblical criticism • Writing of the deuterocanonical books (biblical apocrypha) and pseudepigrapha ==See also==