Simon bar Kokhba (Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן בַּר כּוֹכְבָא Šīm‘ōn bar Kōḵḇāʾ‎‍) or Simon bar Koseba (שִׁמְעוֹן בַּר כֹסֵבָא Šīm‘ōn bar Ḵōsēḇaʾ‎‍), commonly referred...

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...

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...

The rabbinic movement's stance on Bar Kokhba revolt is unclear based on seemingly contradictory Talmudic sources. However, the revolt strengthened the...

The Bar Kokhba War AD 132–136: The last Jewish revolt against Imperial Rome. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-4728-1800-3. "Shimon Bar Kokhba Exhibit...

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...

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 Bar Kokhba hiding complexes are underground hideout systems built by Jewish rebels and their communities in Judaea and used during the Bar Kokhba revolt...

the day of Bar Kokhba's victory. By the late 1940s, Israeli textbooks for schoolchildren painted Bar Kokhba as the hero while Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and...

(Shabbat). 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...

Khirbet ʿĒn el-Kizbe in the Judean Shephelah, and the Origins of Shimon Bar Kokhba", 'Go Out and Study the Land' (Judges 18:2), Leiden: Brill, doi:10...

during this time. Following the Bar Kokhba revolt around 140 CE, when the Sanhedrin was located in Usha, Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel II took its leadership...

Yonatan Ben Be'aya and Masbala Ben Shimon, commanders of Ein Gedi, along with two donkeys provided by Bar Kokhba himself, to load them with palm branches...

of the Sages"). He was executed by the Romans in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. Akiva ben Joseph (written עֲקִיבָא in the Babylonian Talmud and...

Elisha's dualism; but it relates that in the critical period following the Bar Kokhba revolt, Elisha visited the schools and attempted to entice the students...

Yohanan ben Zakkai, Shimon ben Gamliel and Judah ben Baba Second Generation between the destruction of the Temple and Bar Kokhba's revolt: Rabban Gamaliel...

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...

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...

Ben-Gurion.[citation needed] Asia portal Biography portal Simon bar Giora Simon bar Kokhba Ben Zion, S. A Roadmap to the Heavens: An Anthropological Study...

opponents of the Bar Kokhba revolt: Shimon bar Yochai recounts: Rabbi Akiva would elucidate, "A star has came forth out of Jacob" [as] '[Bar] Kozba' has came...

Gamliel II, Nasi of the Sanhedrin in c. 118 AD Simeon Bar Kokhba, leader of the Bar Kokhba revolt Simeon bar Yochai, rabbi of the Tannaim period, possibly the...

of the Bar Kokhba revolt, the settlement was severely damaged. Some of the residents, including the leaders of Ein Gedi on behalf of Bar Kokhba, Jonathan...

Babatha bat Shimʿon, also known as Babata (Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: בבתא, romanized: babbaṯā, lit. 'Pupil (of the eye)'; c. 104 – after 132) was a...

136 CE, the Bar Kokhba revolt took place, representing the last major Jewish effort to reclaim independence in Judaea. Led by Simon Bar Kokhba, who assumed...

school) where Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah taught before the Bar Kokhba revolt, and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai after it.[citation needed] Scholars, however, disagree...

Judea, known as the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–136 CE, concentrating in Judea province and led by Simon bar Kokhba. Although Bar Kokhba was initially successful...

a builder of fortresses. The town continued to be inhabited until the Bar Kokhba revolt under Hadrian, when it was destroyed. Another survey of the site...

similarly gifted men, whose task it became to overcome the results of the Bar Kokhba revolt. During the interval between these two disasters (56-117), or,...

(115–120) (Sons of Zadok) Interregnum (Bar Kokhba revolt) (132–135) Judah bar Ilai c. 140 moved the Sanhedrin to Usha Shimon ben Gamliel II Judah haNasi (170–220)...

Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred, eds. (2007). "Bar Kokhba". Encyclopaedia Judaica. Quoting from Gibson, Shimon. Encyclopaedia Hebraica (2 ed.). Vol. 3 (2 ed...