The Bar Kokhba revolt (Hebrew: מֶרֶד בַּר כּוֹכְבָא, romanized: Mereḏ Bar Kōḵḇāʾ) was a large-scale armed rebellion by the Jews of Judaea against the...
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commonly referred to simply as Bar Kokhba, was a Jewish military leader in Judea. He lent his name to the Bar Kokhba revolt, which he initiated against the...
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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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rabbinic movement's stance on Bar Kokhba revolt is unclear based on seemingly contradictory Talmudic sources. However, the revolt strengthened the rabbis'...
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Jewish–Roman wars (section Bar Kokhba revolt)
two major uprisings: the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE), both driven by Jewish aspirations to restore the political...
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Cave of Horrors (category Bar Kokhba revolt)
Judaean Desert, Israel, where the remains of Jewish refugees from the Bar Kokhba revolt (c. 132–136 AD) were found. The cave lies in the cliffs towering from...
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The Bar Kokhba refuge caves are natural caves that were used for shelter by Jewish refugees during the later phases of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Most of the...
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Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. Fifteen years after these uprisings, the Bar Kokhba revolt erupted, marking the last major Jewish attempt to regain independence...
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Herodium (section Bar Kokhba revolt)
by the Romans in 71 CE. At the beginning of the Bar Kokhba revolt sixty years later, Simon bar Kokhba declared Herodium as his secondary headquarters...
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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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Sanhedrin (section After Bar Kokhba Revolt)
After the destruction of the Second Temple and the failure of the Bar Kokhba revolt, the Great Sanhedrin moved to Galilee, which became part of the Roman...
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changed in the wake of the Second Temple's destruction and the later Bar Kokhba revolt of the Jews against Roman rule, after which Christianity and Judaism...
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Tiberias (section Great Revolt and Bar Kokhba revolt)
indication that Tiberias, as well as the rest of Galilee, took part in the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–136 CE, thus allowing it to continue to exist, despite a heavy...
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Galilean (section Bar Kokhba revolt)
the Galileans were not fazed by the Bar Kokhba revolt because Galilee as a whole either never joined the revolt or, if there was any insurgence, it was...
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200 and 400 CE, as it declined in the aftermath of the unsuccessful Bar Kokhba revolt, which was carried out against the Roman Empire by the Jews of Judaea...
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Judea (section Bar Kokhba revolt)
enslaved. In 132 CE, the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE) broke out. After an initial string of victories, rebel leader Simeon Bar Kokhba was able to form an...
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Syria Palaestina (category Bar Kokhba revolt)
formerly known as Judaea, following the Roman suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt, in what then became known as the Palestine region between the early...
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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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Gentile religion. A few decades after the First Jewish-Roman War, the Bar-Kokhba Revolt (132–135 CE) erupted; its brutal suppression by the Romans further...
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the Bar Kokhba revolt, the second (sometimes counted as the third) of the Jewish–Roman wars. Bar Kokhba may also refer to: Bar Kokhba (album), a 1996...
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temple. This set the stage for another major Jewish rebellion—the Bar Kokhba revolt. Jerusalem served as the religious and national center of the Jewish...
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First Jewish–Roman War (redirect from First Jewish Revolt)
presence in the region. The Jewish–Roman wars reached their end in the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE), another attempt to restore Jewish independence, which...
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Kitos War (section Revolt and warfare)
(66–73 CE) and 16 years before the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136). The Kitos War occurred amid the broader Diaspora Revolt of 115–117, which saw Jewish uprisings...
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Legio XXII Deiotariana (category Military units and factions of the Bar Kokhba revolt)
Roman army, founded ca. 48 BC and disbanded or destroyed during the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–136. Its cognomen comes from Deiotarus, a Celtic king of Galatia...
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Te'omim Cave (category Bar Kokhba refuge caves)
its role as a refuge cave for Jewish rebels and refugees during the Bar Kokhba revolt. Furthermore, evidence of an ancient alabaster quarry dating to the...
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Jewish history (section Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE))
community in Alexandria. From 132 to 136 CE, Judaea was the center of the Bar Kokhba revolt, triggered by Hadrian's decision to establish the pagan colony of...
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Rabbinic period (section Bar Kokhba revolt)
the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135 CE, a failed bid for the reestablishment of an independent Jewish state in Judaea. The suppression of these revolts by...
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Cave of Letters (category Bar Kokhba refuge caves)
found. Some are related to the Bar Kokhba revolt (circa 131–136 CE), including letters of correspondence between Bar Kokhba and his subordinates. Another...
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Byzantines had now become viewed as oppressors.: 122 Following the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE Jews were prohibited from entering the city. Constantine...
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Betar (ancient village) (category Bar Kokhba revolt)
inhabited since the Iron Age, it was the last standing stronghold of the Bar Kokhba revolt, and was destroyed by the Imperial Roman Army under Hadrian in 135...
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