Jewish History 2

Question 1

The Great revolt

Answer 1

66CE

Question 2

The ‘Jewish war’

Answer 2

78CE

Question 3

The temple is destroyed

Answer 3

70CE

Question 4

Flavius silva, the roman governor, resolved to crush the resistance at Masada.

Answer 4

72CE

Question 5

Josephus writes the Jewish antiquities

Answer 5

93 CE

Question 6

Josephus writes the life of Josephus

Answer 6

99CE

Question 7

The fall of Masada

Answer 7

73CE

Question 8

The bar kochba revolt

Answer 8

132-135CE

Question 9

Rabbi yehudah hanasi seals the Mishnah

Answer 9

Approx 200CE

Question 10

Completion of the Talmud

Answer 10

500CE

Question 11

Hadrian

Answer 11

• emperor, bar kochba revolt
• dedicate temple to Jupiter and make Judea roman
• forbade Jews from practising their religion

Question 12

Titus

Answer 12

• Son of Vespasian
• destroy temple, Jews hope
• maintain temple, beautiful roman territory

Question 13

Josephus

Answer 13

• 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

Question 14

Zealots

Answer 14

• All promised to commit suicide on Masada instead of being captured by the Romans
• sub group of extreme Pharisees

Question 15

Vespasian

Answer 15

• 66CE took over Judea(start of the revolt

- took Josephus prisoner when he found him and made him write commentaries on the war

Question 16

Yo Janna Ben zakkai

Answer 16

• during the Bar kochba revolt he faked death to escape Jerusalem
• established yavneh

Question 17

Elazar ben Yair

Answer 17

• Leader of the zealots

- made a speech about commuting suicide

Question 18

Rabbi akiva

Answer 18

• 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

Question 19

Bar kochba

Answer 19

• 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)

Question 20

Rabbi yehudah hanasi

Answer 20

He compiled the Mishnah

Many people considered him as the mashiach

Question 21

Shining bar yochai

Answer 21

Studied in a cave hiding from the romans and Hadrian.

Had a son named rabbi eliezer Ben shimon.

Question 22

Tanaim

Answer 22

Rabies who wrote commentaries on the Torah in the Mishnah

Stopped when rabbi yehudah hanasi passed away and sealed the Mishnah

Question 23

Which area did most of the Jews live

Answer 23

Galil

Question 24

After the bar kochba revolt where did many Jews go

Answer 24

Babylon

Question 25

Why was the oral law written down

Answer 25

Because rabbi yehudah feared that it would be lost

Question 26

What was the tension between the tabbies in Israel and Babylon?

Answer 26

Israeli rabbis thought they were better but they Babylonians thought that if rabbi akiva could make laws out of Israel so could they

Question 27

Masada

Answer 27

Zealots escaped to Masada

Elazar Ben Yair was the leader

They all ( except Josephus) commuted suicide

Question 28

How was it a multi sided war?

Answer 28

Sicarii and zealots against the rest of the Jews.

Question 29

How was the temple destroyed?

Answer 29

A man set it on fire with a bow and arrow( don’t know if it was on purpose)