Bar Kochba Revolt
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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 b ....
Middle of paper
.... Trajan had promised the Jews
that he would rebuild the asenv ,hc, the Jews assumed this also meant to rebuild
Jerusalem.
The Pagans in Palestine did not want the asenv ,hc to be rebuilt,
they thought that if it was rebuilt it would be the rebirth of the Jewish nation.
Also, in addition, Trajan, the Emperor who made this promise died and was
succeeded by Hadrian. The Jews were unsure if Hadrian would keep the promise
that Trajan once made. Hadrian wanted to go to Jerusalem to see what ....
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