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The First Jewish–Roman War is regarded by most scholars as a prime example of ancient Jewish nationalism. [50] At its core, the revolt was driven by the pursuit of "freedom", which entailed removing Roman control and establishing an independent Jewish state. [51]
The First Jewish-Roman War ended with the devastating siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, including the burning of the Second Temple—the center of Jewish religious and national life. Roman forces destroyed other towns and villages throughout Judaea, causing massive loss of life and displacement of the population. [ 12 ]
The First Jewish–Roman War, also known as the Great Jewish Revolt, broke following the appointment of prefect Gessius Florus and his demand to receive Temple funds. The governor of Syria, Cestius Gallus, launched a campaign to suppress the rebellion, advancing into Jerusalem in Autumn 66.
The Jewish War [a] [b] is a work of Jewish history written by Josephus, a first-century Roman-Jewish historian. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It has been described by the historian Steve Mason as "perhaps the most influential non-biblical text of Western history".
Kitos War (Revolt against Trajan) – a second Jewish-Roman War initiated in large Jewish communities of Cyprus, Cyrene (modern Libya), Aegipta (modern Egypt) and Mesopotamia (modern Syria and Iraq). It led to mutual killing of hundreds of thousands Jews, Greeks and Romans, ending with a total defeat of Jewish rebels and complete extermination ...
The Jewish–Roman wars were a series of large-scale revolts by Jewish subjects against the Roman Empire between 66 and 135 CE. [114] The term primarily applies to the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE), nationalist rebellions striving to restore an independent Judean state.
Jewish jubilation met with Arab hostility and a civil war duly erupted. The first Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion officially proclaims the state of Israel in Tel Aviv in 1948 (AFP/Getty)
In the first centuries CE, as a result of the Jewish-Roman Wars, [92] a large number of Jews were taken as captives, sold into slavery, or compelled to flee from the regions affected by the wars, contributing to the formation and expansion of Jewish communities across the Roman Empire as well as in Arabia and Mesopotamia. Jewish communities ...