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In Autumn 66, Jewish rebels ambushed a retreating Roman army under Gallus on this road, annihilating a force equivalent to a full legion. Scholars have compared this Roman failure to the disastrous Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 CE, [ 146 ] [ 151 ] though the latter was much larger in scale, resulting in three times the losses. [ 155 ]
According to Josephus, the violence of the year 66 initially began at Caesarea, provoked by Greeks of a certain merchant house sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue. [1] The Roman garrison did not intervene there and thus the long-standing Hellenistic and Jewish religious tensions took a downward spiral.
The Jewish–Roman wars were a series of large-scale revolts by the Jews of Judaea against the Roman Empire between 66 and 135 CE. [10] The conflict primarily encompasses two major uprisings: the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE), both driven by Jewish aspirations to restore the political ...
Judea proper, Samaria and Idumea became the Roman province of Judaea in 6 AD. Jewish–Roman tensions resulted in several Jewish–Roman wars between the years 66 and 135 AD, which resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple and the institution of the Jewish Tax in 70 (those who paid the tax were exempt from the obligation of ...
Extensive riots erupted in Alexandria, Roman Egypt, in 66 CE, in parallel with the outbreak of the First Jewish–Roman War in neighbouring Roman Judea.. With the rising tension between the Greeks and the Jews the Alexandrines had organized a public assembly to deliberate about an embassy to Nero, and a great number of Jews came flocking to the amphitheater.
It was preceded by the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE) and the Diaspora Revolt (115–117 CE). These revolts were harshly suppressed by the Roman authorities, resulting in the destruction of numerous Jewish communities, including Jerusalem. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed, many others were exiled or sold into slavery, and the ...
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In 66 AD, a group of Jewish rebels, the Sicarii, overcame the Roman garrison of Masada with the aid of a ruse. [11] According to Josephus, the Sicarii were an extremist Jewish splinter group antagonistic to a larger grouping of Jews referred to as the Zealots , who carried the main burden of the rebellion.