Intertestamental Period By rileyannparker 587 BCE Fall of Jerusalem 559 BCE Cyrus became King 323 BCE Alexander the Great's Death 301 BCE Battle of Ipsus Antigonus defeated Period: 200 BCE to 100 Apocrypha Written includes more than a dozen noncanonical books 175 BCE Antiochus IV became Ruler Period: 166 BCE to 63 BCE The Maccabean/Hasmonean Period Period: 63 BCE to 70 The Domination of Rome 37 BCE Herod Conquers Jerusalem Period: 37 BCE to 4 BCE The Rule of Herod the Great Period: 4 BCE to 39 Antipas Rules Period: 4 BCE to 66 The Rule of Herod's Descendants Period: 4 BCE to 6 Archelaus Rules Period: 4 BCE to 34 Phillip Rules Period: 37 to 66 Herod Agrippa I and II Rule Period: 66 to 70 The Jewish War and the Destruction of Jerusalem