Born Simon ben Kosiba, Simon bar Kokhba led the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman empire. The revolt succeeded momentarily, and the Romans were expelled from Judea -- but the conflict was far from over. Tune in and learn what happened next.
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hello and welcome to the pride cast iron, Katy member and I'm very daddy, and we ve been focusing a lot lately on charismatic rebel leaders and specifically guerrilla warfare with TAT about Gara Baldy. We ve talked about his. I leave it sure and we have another one for each day and his name is bar costs by and we had talked a bit about some
revolts an r podcast on King Herod Tomb. We touch a little bit about the saga, but this the bar cook by revolt or these
and jewish revolt. Isn't it
but the important event in jewish history and one that Sarah and I had missed in history. So that's it we're going to talk about two
and to give you a very
summary, it's the Jews versus the Romans in Judea, one thirty, two to one thirty, five. Eighty and spoiler alert the Romans
but there's a lot more to it than that. Things were always that bad
between the Jews and the Romans. We have Pompey
doing Judea and sixty three b c, and between that we have five Herod and the massacre of the innocents and
that bit of history, that most people probably do now. But there was a pause
they have tower than this early roman rule.
Interfere much with jewish religious practices, even though they thought they were a bit strain
they didn't understand. Why used any pork or in a hurry?
images if our God around or why they circumcised babies. But there was no lot of animosity
as my just to look at you strange quaint customs, but there were some big differences. Fundamental differ:
says between the Jews and Romans. It was raining little bit from Martin Goodman's, Rome in Jerusalem, the clash of ancient civilizations, and he was saying basically that Roma
about political and military power, while Jerusalem was completely centred around religion, and this was
That was bound to cause a clash at some point or another results in different ideas, about government and about people about morality, yeah, one exam
The Jews didn't celebrate birthdays with any
of ritual love.
Is a huge, the offer Romans, especially celebrating the emperor's birthday, and to give you
idea of how things he usually went: the people, the Romans conquered generally assimilated fairly well into roman culture, local police
local customs were absorbed. End things you. She went fairly smoothly
from there won't be tradeoffs, but things were different.
With the Jews, because their culture was so
friend and so specific, especially when it came to religion, you know being money, monotheistic verses polytheistic,
the Romans force their other conquered people into certain religious obligations. They didn't make the Jews do that they didn't make them worship the roman gods, for example. They let them stay with their one. God and enriched
the jewish people prayed for the emperor at the Temple and offered sacrifices in his honor, so we ve got
all amount of compromise at least early on here, but in sixty six
Allergies are? Who is a priest in Jerusalem, put his foot down
Sickly inside you know, let's stop offering these sacrifices and
the emperor not appropriate in this sphere
the show down, which starts a huge revolt which is the first jewish revolver, goes from sixty six to seventy, and it was not a little skirmish. It's a really really big deal
so known as the great revolt and during this time, a lot at the jewish Christians fled, Judea and and
indeed the Romans one and
strewed. The second temple, which was an absolutely devastating loss to religious life and to do
culture and a million Jews died in this revolt. So there were
obviously results in some changes in attitude and the Romans start acting differ,
to the Jews and Jerusalem, the rule,
get harder and stricter,
and then there's another event that changes things even further
you're one fourteen the emperor Trajan starts a fight against the parthians. The persian empire
the Parthian Jews fought with our neighbours, the Persians again
The Romans and meanwhile Jews elsewhere in the empire, began to revolt and in response for these betrayed
in their eyes the Romans wiped out jewish communities in Cyprus, Libya, Alexandria and Mesopotamian. So, according to some p,
the jewish diaspora,
actually started before the second revolver,
talk about that a little more later. The next event come
one thirty, when Emperor Hadrian's first shows up in June,
Islam and he actually
starts out with a pretty lenient ran in regard to the Jews. He even try
about letting them rebuild the temple, but he later goes
on all of this and becomes a very strict and harsh emperor goes
the complete opposite direction: the Jews
accorded enemy status. He started deporting them and then he began to oppress their religious practices. He abandoned circumcision. For example, he announced plans to build a roman tumble on top of where the Temple Jerusalem used to be, which of course, is a very sacred spot. This is more than a slap in the face of the desecration its
taking places a power and trying to assume them, which is
an interesting thing in history, at least for me, in theirs
really terrible governor of Judea, the time tiniest Rufus, who is set to take advantage of jewish,
and an arm
generally bad guys
charge a soldier
as a Jew in Jerusalem. At this time you can't practice your religion. The way that you want your being governed by a terrible emperor and possibly even more terrible, governor and industry
met during some construction. The tomb of Solomon Collapse. Twitch just maybe be
your the last relied wrong said you dear stirred up people are angry. All they need is a compelling leader, and now we
Simon bar Kosovo, also known as bar cooked by who led the revolt in
like some of the other men. We talked about salmon bar cook
a born leader he's really good at you.
In view of that kind of stuff he does
we even have some of his letters in which he refers to himself is painfully. He thinks quite highly of himself as well and so did other people. Some, like rabbi occupied the time thought he was the Messiah. He got his name barcode about which many son of STAR
of course, in the book of numbers, which says there shall come a star out of Jacob in he starts the sun
being a gorilla army of a hundred thousand people and the
meanwhile, are hiding out in caves and minting their own coins, and they think that this revolt might actually be the apocalypse and we found archaeology
evidence of them. Be
in caves, preparing further she's, pretty interesting.
Managed to take over Judea and throwing the Romans out and briefly, establishing a jewish state. Some savings.
Capture Jerusalem, others disagree, but they achieved great great successes.
And the timeframe on how long this this jewish
at last. The little shaky some people little happening here. Some people are saying just a few months. Somebody
as long as a couple of years, but just the fact that it exists is is important in itself
So half the roman army ends up in Judea to quell the rebellion and just think about that, because we all know how powerful the roman army was. It takes half of it to come and fight. One hundred thousand Jews,
Julia Severus is in charge of the army and she wanted pick
there's a little bit more dont picture. Two armies coming out each other in a battlefield. You know marching towards one another ends up being a lot of skirmishes between small group,
Some say that because the Romans didn't want open battle, they were afraid that
You were willing to die for their faith and therefore it would be much bloodier. Then they were willing to get into
and others say it was our costs by who wouldn't fight them and open battle, but either way that's how applied played out in front
the Jews are actually winning and then the resistance starts to fall apart and
again disagreement over, why this happened. Some people think it's arrogant,
the part of our cookbook who starts acting like
Messiah instead of a
leader. Power corrupts yeah
to one of the major ashes actually killed. The priest. Alleys are, which would suggest. I don't know power crazed lost,
in order to guide and are now also
side of the Romans we have some natural events like famine, disease and fire that were quickly run.
Through the ranks of the jewish people and proved to be a much more powerful force than Julia Severus, so drew
I'm files in one thirty, five and bar cook, the retreats too
are which is a fortress on the coast after losing
is, and that's where his last stand. As
there's a mad on lamentations, and this is a quote:
slew the inhabitants until the horses waded in blood up to the nostrils and oblige rolled along the stones, and this is referring, of course, to the Romans killing the Jews.
The fallen guitar happened on Tisch above what is known as the saddest
day in jewish history, that's when the first and second temples both fell
to these accounts. This was a very
this was a very, very bloody and to better and bar comas people he was killed and his head was brought to hatred
have more juice, guitar dying of hunger and thirst than being actually kid
and that's why the city fell
So once again, we just have this uncertainty.
Certain aspects of this account but the queen,
at the time of the Romans, wouldn't bury the Jews who died at the tire, regardless of how they died and left them out
for years, but the bodies didn't rot and
their accounts of this war. Have jewish children being wrapped in tourist scrolls and burned alive, which Sir and I decided
and entirely put past the roman army. So after the revolt,
one destroyed retards?
stride and five hundred
thousand Jews are killed,
even more that's just a battle yeah cause, even more of them, die from starvation or disease
A lot of Romans die to get pretty fed up with,
remaining jewish people and try to crush them. They sell Jews, slaves for the price of a horse and
The city was rebuilt as a roman colony, complete with a temple to Jupiter Colony.
A year later, capital in
dear rename to Palestine Pagan.
That using such were put unholy sites. Rabbis were killed, including rabbi occupy we mentioned earlier. I juice
forbidden to observe the Sabbath need and synagogues study, the Torah and perhaps most terrible
All Jews were banned from the city of Jerusalem until the fourth century and accept
the of where they came to the portion of the western wall. That was
standing, and this was just like rubbing salt,
in the Well India we win win. You mentioned earlier, made more sense to make us. I was having trouble imagining why, if you're gonna kick a whole people out of the city where you bother to let them come back for a day, but because human
them back again to remember the saddest historic
They have their religions history
later on the emperor after Hadrian's is a little more lenient. He allows for circumcision, again allows for
the burying of the dead, but things are never the same
We should talk a little bit about why this is so important. Some say that the barcode by revolt, also known as the second jewish River,
it is when the jewish diaspora started, because or so many Jews
held. Many were enslaved. The religion was oppressed and people ended up now in all parts of the globe and after this
jewish state and general was gone for sense
upon century in Berkeley, does
reputation. Change too for some people some concern.
Him. Now the son of lies or the son of the disappointment. Instead
sire and in general, people got
lot more sceptical of methane
claims
That's an interesting turning point. I guess we ve talked about that
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