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The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136 - The last Jewish revolt against Imperial Rome (Paperback)
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The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136 - The last Jewish revolt against Imperial Rome (Paperback)
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In AD 132, Shim'on Ben Koseba, a rebel leader who assumed the
messianic name Shim'on Bar Kokhba ('Son of a Star'), led the people
of Judaea in open rebellion, aiming to establish their own
independent Jewish state and to liberate Jerusalem from the Romans.
During the ensuing 'Bar Kokhba War' (AKA the Second Jewish War),
the insurgents held their own against the crack Roman troops sent
by Emperor Hadrian for three-and-a-half years. The cost of this
rebellion was catastrophic: hundreds of thousands of casualties,
the destruction and enslavement of Jewish communities and a ban on
Jews entering Jerusalem. Bar Kokhba remains important in Israel
today because he was the last leader of a Jewish state before the
rise of Zionism in modern times. This fully illustrated volume
explores the gripping story of the uprising, profiling its rebel
leader Bar Kokhba as well as the Emperor Hadrian and his generals,
and assesses the impact that this violent rebellion had on the
region and those that were displaced.
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