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Jewish Bar Kochba Revolt

The Jewish revolt led by Bar Kochba in 132 AD was not the work

of a single if a single radical revolutionary. It was the inevitable

result of years of promises not kept to the Jews, and laws which

suppressed the basis of Jews as a nation. To understand the reason

for Bar Kochba’s Revolt one must go back many years even before the

war. Prior to Hadrian, an emperor by the name of Trajan was the ruler

of the Roman empire. Due to the rebellion of the Jews in the Diaspora

to the east and the west of them, Trajan, in order to keep the Jews in

Palestine from rebelling he had to send a great general to be governor

of the Jews in Palestine, a general who was well with the harshness in

which he treated people. This general’s name was Tineius Rufus, he was

the general that put down the uprising of the Jews in Parthia. Because

of Rufus’ reputation of his severity to the Jews, he uprooted any

thought of the Jews in Palestine to rebel against Rome at that time.

The Jews did not want to rebel anyway. Trajan had promised the Jews

that he would rebuild the asenv ,hc, the Jews assumed this also meant

The Pagans in Palestine did not want the asen

. . .

The second is that a spy from Betar told the Romans a secret way to

get into the city. Even if Bar Kochba did not exist a

revolt would have still occurred maybe with a different date and a

different leader, but a revolt was inescapable.

Circumcision, which was the physical difference between them as Jews

and, as well as a basic premise of their Jewish beliefs.

The rest of the Jews were either sold as slaves, hid in caves, or fled

to other countries. "Consequently the Jews saw in Hadrian

another Antiochus Epiphanes.

It was said that Betar was impenetrable. The Rabbi’s objected to this

manner of testing Jews. He was the inevitable result of years of suppression. Pretty soon Bar Kochba had overthrown

all of Palestine for the Jews. "

Hadrian realized that the Jews would never see Rome as a mother

country. Also the building of a wall

around Jerusalem had begun. He was going to put an alter

where the Jews asenv ,hc once stood. He realized that the Jews would

always see the Romans as Tyrants.

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