Book 1 — Chronological Table.
Reading edition
B.C.E. B.C.E.
Death of Alexander323Onias I, High Priest332
Division of Alexander's
Empire into four Kingdoms323Judea part of Greco-Egyptian
realm (Ptolemaic)301
Simon the Just, High
Ptolemy II, Philadelphus285Priest300
The Septuagint (translation
of the Bible into
Greek) begun at Alexandria
about250
Ptolemy III Euergetes247Joseph, Governor of Palestine230
Ptolemy IV Philopator222Judea part of Greco-Syrian real203
Ptolemy VI Philometor181Onias IV, builds a Temple
at Leontopolis, Egypt160
Ben Sirach visits Egypt132