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While escorting Jewish refugees back to Judea, the Maccabees ran into resistance at the town of Ephron. The Maccabees attacked it, plundered and razed the town, and killed the male inhabitants. The refugees returned to Judea safely and successfully. According to 2 Maccabees, the refugees arrived just in time to celebrate the Feast of Weeks. [4]
However, only Caligula's death at the hands of Roman conspirators in 41 prevented a full-scale war in Judaea, that might have spread to the rest of the eastern part of the empire. [51] Caligula's death did not stop the tensions completely, and in 46 an insurrection led by two brothers, the Jacob and Simon uprising, broke out in the Judea ...
[3] [4] [5] The Semitic root S-L-M in the name is thought to refer to either "peace" (Salam or Shalom in modern Arabic and Hebrew) or Shalim, the god of dusk in the Canaanite religion. c. 1850 BCE: According to the Book of Genesis, the Binding of Isaac takes place on a mountain in the land of Moriah (see Chronology of the Bible). Biblical ...
The Hashomer in 1907. Shochat is in the centre. Bar Giora's founder, Israel Shochat made his Aliyah to Ottoman Syria (later British Mandate for Palestine) in 1904.He already had experience of underground militias during the Tzarist pogroms and on his arrival he came under the influence of Michael Halperin (see here), attracted by his talk of an army of Jewish fighters.
Pompey laid siege to and entered the Temple, and Judea became a client kingdom of the Roman Republic. 40: Herod the Great was appointed King of the Jews by the Roman Senate, replacing the Hasmonean dynasty with the Herodian dynasty. 6-4: Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem, Herodian Kingdom. Birth of Jesus by Hans Pleydenwurff
The fall of Betar and the death of Bar Kokhba in 135 marked the final collapse of the revolt. [74] Judea proper was heavily depopulated, with many Jews sold into slavery and transported to distant regions. [75] While Hadrian's death in 137 eased some of the restrictions and persecution, the Jewish population in the region was severely reduced. [75]
The siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 CE on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel.The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus, [3] a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans, in whose service he became a historian.
[3] [4] Roman general Pompey conquered Jerusalem and its surroundings by 63 BC. The Romans deposed the ruling Hasmonean dynasty of Judaea (in power from c. 140 BC) and the Roman Senate declared Herod the Great "King of the Jews" in c. 40 BC. Judea proper, Samaria and Idumea became the Roman province of Judaea in 6 AD.