Jewish History 2 Flashcards
The Great revolt
66CE
The ‘Jewish war’
78CE
The temple is destroyed
70CE
Flavius silva, the roman governor, resolved to crush the resistance at Masada.
72CE
Josephus writes the Jewish antiquities
93 CE
Josephus writes the life of Josephus
99CE
The fall of Masada
73CE
The bar kochba revolt
132-135CE
Rabbi yehudah hanasi seals the Mishnah
Approx 200CE
Completion of the Talmud
500CE
Hadrian
- emperor, bar kochba revolt
- dedicate temple to Jupiter and make Judea roman
- forbade Jews from practising their religion
Titus
- Son of Vespasian
- destroy temple, Jews hope
- maintain temple, beautiful roman territory
Josephus
- Jew who converted to roman and betrayed the Jews by not committing suicidd like promised
- wrote commentaries of the history of the war from a roman (secular) perspective
Zealots
- All promised to commit suicide on Masada instead of being captured by the Romans
- sub group of extreme Pharisees
Vespasian
- 66CE took over Judea(start of the revolt
- took Josephus prisoner when he found him and made him write commentaries on the war
Yo Janna Ben zakkai
- during the Bar kochba revolt he faked death to escape Jerusalem
- established yavneh
Elazar ben Yair
- Leader of the zealots
- made a speech about commuting suicide
Rabbi akiva
- thousands of students
- supported bar kochba
- he was originally a poor person who wanted to marry his employees daughter but first he had to study Torah
Bar kochba
- Leaded bar kochba revolt made some decisions Jews didn’t agree with
- origanilly named shining bar kosiba(son of a lie) but rabbi akiva renamed him as bar kochba( son of a lie)
Rabbi yehudah hanasi
He compiled the Mishnah
Many people considered him as the mashiach
Shining bar yochai
Studied in a cave hiding from the romans and Hadrian.
Had a son named rabbi eliezer Ben shimon.
Tanaim
Rabies who wrote commentaries on the Torah in the Mishnah
Stopped when rabbi yehudah hanasi passed away and sealed the Mishnah
Which area did most of the Jews live
Galil
After the bar kochba revolt where did many Jews go
Babylon
Why was the oral law written down
Because rabbi yehudah feared that it would be lost
What was the tension between the tabbies in Israel and Babylon?
Israeli rabbis thought they were better but they Babylonians thought that if rabbi akiva could make laws out of Israel so could they
Masada
Zealots escaped to Masada
Elazar Ben Yair was the leader
They all ( except Josephus) commuted suicide
How was it a multi sided war?
Sicarii and zealots against the rest of the Jews.
How was the temple destroyed?
A man set it on fire with a bow and arrow( don’t know if it was on purpose)
