and social history of the Jewish community in the Land of Israel. The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 4, The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period. Cambridge ...
It would be “extremely surprising” if the best historical source “forgot or did not know who were the Jewish leaders of this war which devastated the area,” writes Haggai Olshanetsky, ...
It is possible that former Jewish soldiers of the Roman army led the rebels to a series of significant ... This shift and the fact that leadership in the first part of the war came from Roman ranks ...
By the beginning of the first century AD ... laws that allowed Jews protection to worship as they chose. Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies ...