The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136 (Osprey Campaign 310)
The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136: The Last Jewish Revolt against Imperial Rome
(Osprey Campaign 310)
2017 | ISBN: 1472817982 | English | 97 Pages | True PDF | 106 MB
(Osprey Campaign 310)
2017 | ISBN: 1472817982 | English | 97 Pages | True PDF | 106 MB
In AD 132, Shim'on Ben Koseba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Shim'on Bar Kokhba ('Son of a Star'), led the people of Judaea in open rebellion, aiming to establish their own independent Jewish state and to liberate Jerusalem from the Romans. During the ensuing 'Bar Kokhba War' (AKA the Second Jewish War), the insurgents held their own against the crack Roman troops sent by Emperor Hadrian for three-and-a-half years. The cost of this rebellion was catastrophic: hundreds of thousands of casualties, the destruction and enslavement of Jewish communities and a ban on Jews entering Jerusalem. Bar Kokhba remains important in Israel today because he was the last leader of a Jewish state before the rise of Zionism in modern times.