The Axial Age And The Time Patrol

Someone might object that the Palestinian events mentioned here as guarded by the Time Patrol are those of 69-70 AD, not of three or four decades earlier. However, surely that entire century is a single process: the origins of Christianity and of rabbinical Judaism? In 100 AD, a council of rabbis defined and closed their scriptural canon in order to differentiate it from the growing rival Christian canon. (I want a new paragraph here but the New Blogger is being downright peculiar.) Also, this first century AD is not the historical turning point. A few centuries earlier in the Axial Age:

 

in Palestine, Elijah and Elisha;

in Greece, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle;

in India, the Buddha, Mahavira and the Upanishadic rishis;

in China, Confucius and Lao Tzu;

in Persia, Zoroaster (depending on his uncertain dates).

Everard visits Persia in 542 BC. When he is in Tyre in the time of Solomon, mention is made of the later King Ahab who will clash with Elijah.

The Time Patrol must protect many periods, including 1-100 AD and also the earlier Axial Age.