Chronological Table

	B.C.E.		B.C.E.
Death of Alexander	323	Onias I, High Priest	332
Division of Alexander’s
Empire into four Kingdoms	323	Judea part of Greco-Egyptian
		realm (Ptolemaic)	301
		Simon the Just, High
Ptolemy II, Philadelphus	285	Priest	300
		The Septuagint (translation
		of the Bible into
		Greek) begun at Alexandria
		about	250
Ptolemy III Euergetes	247	Joseph, Governor of Palestine	230
Ptolemy IV Philopator	222	Judea part of Greco-Syrian real	203
Ptolemy VI Philometor	181	Onias IV, builds a Temple
		at Leontopolis, Egypt	160
		Ben Sirach visits Egypt	132