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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 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.
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]
[note 4] While the setting of the book is 400 years earlier in Babylon, the book is a literary response to the situation in Judea during the revolt (Sitz im Leben); the writer chose to move the setting either for esoteric reasons or to evade scrutiny from would-be censors. It urges its readers to remain steadfast in the face of persecution.
By the first century, Babylonia already held a speedily growing [92] population of an estimated 1,000,000 Jews, which increased to an estimated 2 million [117] between the years 200 CE and 500 CE, both by natural growth and by immigration of more Jews from Judea, making up about 1/6 of the world Jewish population at that era. [117]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Judea יְהוּדָה Region Coordinates: 31°40′N 35°00′E / 31.667°N 35.000°E / 31.667; 35.000 Location Southern Levant Part of Palestine Israel Native name יְהוּדָה Highest elevation 1,020 m or 3,350 ft (Mount Hebron) Judea or Judaea is a mountainous region of ...
Antisemitism in the Arab world; Antisemitism in Islam; Islamic–Jewish relations; Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world; History of the Jews in Poland; History of the Jews in Romania; History of the Jews in Russia. Antisemitism in Russia; History of the Jews in the Soviet Union; Antisemitism in the Soviet Union; History of the Jews ...
One of the world's earliest known synagogues was discovered in Gamla, and is believed to date back to the late 1st century BCE. [11] [10] [28] It is possibly the oldest synagogue found in Judaea. [10] Situated within the city's walls, this synagogue, constructed from dressed stone, [11] features a main hall measuring 22 by 17 meters.