Bar Kochba Revolt

שמעון בן כוסבה.

Bar kochba revolt.

It followed a long period of tension and violence marked by the first jewish uprising of 66 70 ce which ended with the destruction of the second temple and the kitos war 115 117 ce. When discovered by roman soldiers they resisted in some cases successfully. Bar kokhba this revolt began as small spontaneous clashes between jews and roman forces. The bar kokhba revolt marked a time of high hopes followed by violent despair.

Simon ben kosevah or cosibah known to posterity as bar kokhba hebrew. The revolt established a three year long independent jewish state in which bar kokhba ruled as nasi prince. The slogans on the bar kokhba coins proclaimed the freedom of israel and for the freedom of jerusalem. The war which followed the uprising was cruel and heavy in losses for both sides.

Bar kochba followed the same strategy that the jews had followed in the first rebellion against rome. He first reconquered the galilee to cut the romans off from the sea. Bar kokhba original name simeon bar kosba kosba also spelled koseba kosiba or kochba also called bar koziba died 135 ce jewish leader who led a bitter but unsuccessful revolt 132 135 ce against roman dominion in judaea. In chapter one i argue that the unrest in judaea before the revolt fostered enmity.

מ ר ד ב ר כ ו כ ב א. Jews were hiding in caves in order to be able to perform the mitzvahs. Mered bar kokhba was a rebellion of the jews of the roman province of judea led by simon bar kokhba against the roman empire. Schiffman the debacle of the first revolt against rome was followed by a period of relative calm.

He had active support of most of the rabbis in contradistinction to the first two revolts against rome. During the revolt itself the jews gained enormous amounts of land only to be pushed back and crushed in the final battle of bethar. The bar kochba revolt 132 136 ce was the third and final war between the jewish people and the roman empire. The bar kokhba revolt hebrew.

Died 135 ce was a jewish military leader who led the bar kokhba revolt against the roman empire in 132 ce. The jews were handed expectations of a homeland and a holy temple but in the end were persecuted and sold into slavery. During his tour of the eastern empire in 131 the roman emperor hadrian decided upon a policy of hellenization to integrate the jews into the empire. The causes of the bar kokhba revolt have long been debated.

This thesis will explore the immediate causes of the bar kokhba revolt and compare them to other provincial revolts in the roman empire. In many ways the bar kochba revolt differed markedly from its predecessors. The scholarly debate over the bar kokhba revolt and its consequences has intensified in recent decades.