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    Bar Kokhba weights are weights that were used during the Bar Kokhba revolt. Of the seven weights found so far, six weights originated from the antiquities...
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    Simon bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן בַּר כּוֹכְבָא Šīm‘ōn bar Kōḵḇāʾ‎‍) or Simon bar Koseba (שִׁמְעוֹן בַּר כֹסֵבָא Šīm‘ōn bar Ḵōsēḇaʾ‎‍), commonly referred...
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    Bar Kokhba revolt (Hebrew: מֶרֶד בַּר כּוֹכְבָא Mereḏ Bar Kōḵḇāʾ‍) was a large-scale armed rebellion initiated by the Jews of Judea, led by Simon bar...
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    Bar Kokhba revolt coinage were coins issued by the Judaean rebel state, headed by Simon Bar Kokhba, during the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire...
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    The Bar Kokhba hiding complexes are underground hideout systems built by Jewish rebels and their communities in Judaea and used during the Bar Kokhba revolt...
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    previously been minted to pay the temple tax. The Bar Kochba shekel was issued from AD 132 to 135 amid the Bar Kokhba revolt for similar reasons. The Punic or...
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    Zuz (Jewish coin) (category Bar Kokhba revolt)
    plural זוזים zuzim) was an ancient Jewish silver coin struck during the Bar Kokhba revolt as well as a Jewish name for the various types of non-Jewish small...
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  • sherd decorated with a menorah. Archaeology of Israel Bar Kokhba Revolt Coinage Bar Kokhba Weights Judean provisional government "Archaeologists unearth...
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    key leader of the Jewish community in Roman-occupied Judea after the Bar Kokhba revolt. The title nasi was used for presidents of the Sanhedrin. He was...
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    coinage Bar Kokhba Revolt coinage Ma'ah, Aramaic for gerah, ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency Prutah Shekel, ancient Near Eastern unit of weight and...
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    Hadrian (category Bar Kokhba revolt)
    widespread, popular cult. Late in Hadrian's reign, he suppressed the Bar Kokhba revolt; he saw this rebellion as a failure of his panhellenic ideal. Hadrian's...
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    Herodian coinage Procuratorial coinage of Roman Judaea Judaea Capta coinage Bar Kokhba Revolt coinage List of historical currencies Frederic Madden, History...
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    Horvat 'Ethri (category Bar Kokhba hiding complexes)
    Jewish–Roman War, the village was ultimately and violently destroyed during the Bar Kokhba revolt, as evidenced by a destruction layer and a mass grave found in...
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    reviving the biblical-era weight system. The use of Hebrew on these coins and in documents, similarly seen in the later Bar Kokhba revolt, represented an...
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    population being killed or displaced. A second uprising known as the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE) initially allowed the Jews to form an independent...
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    Ancestry and Merit". Jewish Identity and Politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba. Leiden: Brill. pp. 100–102. Marshak, Adam Kolman (2012-01-01). "Rise...
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    Jews at that time were expecting a military leader as a Messiah, such as Bar Kokhba. Psalm 2 was another source of Jewish messianism, which was prompted by...
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    history. In the first century CE, it was a Jewish city, and following the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135, Sepphoris was one of the Galilean centers where rabbinical...
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  • period (600 CE). The proportion of Jews to gentiles is also unknown. The Bar Kokhba revolt in the 2nd century saw a major shift in the population of Palestine...
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    coinage of Roman Judaea First Jewish Revolt coinage Judaea Capta coinage Bar Kokhba Revolt coinage Gerson, Stephen (2001). "Fractional Coins of Judea and...
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  • coinage of Roman Judaea First Jewish Revolt coinage Judaea Capta coinage Bar Kokhba Revolt coinage List of historical currencies Temple in Jerusalem Second...
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  • took place. Simon bar Kokhba (also: Bar Kosiba) (?– died c. 135), led a revolt against the Roman Empire in 132–135 CE. Bar Kokhba was hailed as Messiah-king...
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    Transjordania. And this city is said to be of the Decapolis. — Epiphanius, On Weights and Measures 15 The early Apostolic Christians were well aware of Jesus'...
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  • Among the People of the Scripture there is he who, if thou trust him with a weight of treasure, will return it to thee. And among them there is he who, if...
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    Salonika, fell under direct German occupation in April 1941 and bore the full weight and intensity of Nazi repressive measures from dispossession, humiliation...
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    This may have occurred either before or after the suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135. Around the year 390, during the Byzantine period, the imperial...
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    attempted to defend themselves from the roofs. These collapsed under the heavy weight, killing many soldiers and forcing a Roman retreat. The legionnaires re-entered...
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    lived in the time of the Mishnah, and was a prominent supporter of the Bar Kokhba rebellion against Roman rule. Rabbi Meir was considered one of the greatest...
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    term primarily applies to the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE), nationalist rebellions striving to restore an independent...
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    of the country's largest political party, his opinions carried enormous weight. Thus, despite resistance from some of his cabinet members, he remained...
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