ed the confidence of the wartime government; and then betrayed the Zealots. Simeon bar Giora raised an army of freed slaves and peasants. He then overran Idumean and seized Jerusalem in 69 A.D. The Idumeans, a local militia, helped the Zealots to overthrow the provisional government. The Zealots were the last group which was made up of mostly priests and peasants (Tenney 853-855).
             The Zealots enforced strict observance of the Hebrew law, labor, and,
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