The Jewish revolt led by
Bar Kochba in 132 AD was not the work of a single if a single radical revolutionary.
It was the inevitable result of years of promises not kept to the Jews, and
laws which suppressed the basis of Jews as a nation.
To understand the reason
for Bar Kochba’s Revolt one must go back many years even before the war. Prior
to Hadrian, an emperor by the name of Trajan was the ruler of the Roman empire.
Due to the rebellion of the Jews in the Diaspora to the east and the west
of them, Trajan, in order to keep the Jews in Palestine from rebelling he had
to send a great general to be governor of the Jews in Palestine, a general
who was well with the harshness in which he treated people. This general’s
name was Tineius Rufus, he was the general that put down the uprising of the
Jews in Parthia. Because of Rufus’ reputation of his severity to the Jews,
he uprooted any thought of the Jews in Palestine to rebel against Rome at that
time. The Jews......
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