In Jewish history, the
Second Commonwealth is the period during which the Second Temple of Jerusalem was in existence, roughly 530 BCE-
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CE.
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In Jewish history, the
Second Commonwealth is the period during which the Second Temple of Jerusalem was in existence, roughly 530 BCE-
70Year 70 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.-Roman Empire:* The building of the Colosseum starts .* Frontinus is praetor of Rome....
CE.
During this period, when ,geographically speaking, the
Kingdom of IsraelThe Kingdom of Israel ) was one of the successor states to the older United Monarchy . It existed roughly from the 930s BC until about the 720s BC, when the kingdom was conquered by the Assyrian Empire...
comprised approximately what today are the countries
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
and
JordanJordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in Western Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba. Jordan shares borders with Syria to the north, Iraq to the northeast, Saudi Arabia to the east and south, the Gulf of Aqaba to the southwest,...
, as well as the Palestinian Authority, Judaism was confronted by two major challenges. First the influence of
HellenismHellenism may refer to:*Hellenistic civilization*Hellenistic period, in Greek antiquity*Hellenistic Greece*Hellenization, the spread of Greek culture over foreign peoples*Hellenistic philosophy in the Hellenistic period and late antiquity...
(which culminated in the
Maccabean RevoltThe Maccabees were a Jewish rebel army who liberated Judea from the rule of the Seleucid empire...
of 167 BCE) and the
RomanThe Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean. The term is used to describe the Roman state during and after the time of the first emperor,...
conquest.
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