Jewish History: A Captivating Guide to the Story of the Jews and Major Historical Events

Four manuscripts in one book:

History of the Jews: A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World War 2
The Jewish War: A Captivating Guide to the First Jewish-Roman War and How the Great Revolt of Judea Impacted Ancient Rome and Jewish History
The Kitos War: A Captivating Guide to One of the Jewish–Roman Wars
The Bar Kokhba Revolt: A Captivating Guide to the Third Jewish–Roman War and Its Impact on Ancient Rome and Jewish History

The Jewish people are one of the oldest living people groups on the planet. The Jews lived alongside the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Phoenicians, and Sumerians—all of whom have since disappeared from the pages of history.

In the first part of this book, you will discover topics such as:

The origin story of the Jewish people
How the Jews first established Israel
About the judges and kings who ruled Israel
Life under Roman rule
How Christianity emerged from Judaism
The Holocaust
The formation of Israel


The Romans, through sheer military strength, turned Judea into a client state. They forced the Jews to submit to Roman law and Roman taxation and to countenance Roman religion.

In the second part of this book, you will learn about the following:

What the Maccabee family accomplished and how they set an example for future leaders of Jewish revolts against foreign powers;
How Josephus turned from a patriotic Jew to a supporter of the Roman cause and how he avoided suicide by luck or excelling in mathematics;
What Jerusalem was like in the midst of the Roman siege;
The fate of the Second Temple and its treasures;
The final gasps of Jewish resistance to Roman rule.


The conflict was named the Kitos War, one of the few rebellions that sprawled across three continents and still had the character of a nationalistic, populist revolution, a rarity in the ancient world. You will also see both the Jews and the Romans in a new light.

In the third part of this book, you will learn about the following:

What were some of the short-term and long-term causes of the revolt?
What were the relations between Jews and other people groups in both Judea and the Diaspora?
How did the Romans treat the Jews?
Was the revolt a result of a coordinated attack or simply a string of multiple coinciding rebellions?
Did Emperors Trajan and Hadrian play a major role in the Jewish revolts?
What was the economic impact of the fighting?
How did the outcome of the war affect the surviving Jews in the empire?


Take a journey through the ancient history of the Jewish people, a proud and stubborn people who desired to retain their freedom and uniqueness.

In the fourth part of this book, you will learn about the following:

What the base tenants of ancient Judaism were and how it formed
How the Roman-Jewish relations evolved through the centuries
What sparked the Jewish desire to fight against the Romans
How the rebel forces prepared for their uprising
Who exactly was Simon bar Kokhba and how he led the revolt
What the Roman response was to the uprising
The tactics and strategies used by both sides in the war
How far the rebel state managed to expand
The extent of Roman reprisals and punishments
The effects the Bar Kokhba Revolt had on Jews and Judaism
And so much more!