135-324 CE - Early Mishnaic/Christian Period In the wake of Jerusalem's destruction, the center of Jewish religious and cultural life shifts to northern and southern regions of Palestine. Side by side, early Christian communities develop and expand rapidly throughout the region. By the second century CE, increased emigration of Jews to Babylon has resulted in a gradual shift of centers of Jewish thought and study to Babylon. There, the major works of oral Jewish law are written and codified into the Talmud over a period of about 300 years. 8000-4000 BCE 3000-1200 BCE 1700 1200-600 BCE 587-332 BCE 520 BCE 332-63 BCE 166 BCE 63-324 CE 6-3 BCE 66 CE 68 CE 132-135 CE 135-324 CE 324-638 CE 614 CE 638-1099 CE 1099-1291 CE 1291-1917 CE 1492 1517 1886 1918-1948 1948 1950-67 1968-1988 1974 1977 1982 1993 2000