Bar Kokhba

orig. Simeon bar Kosba

(died AD 135) Leader of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Roman rule in Palestine. In 131 Hadrian forbade circumcision and built a temple to Jupiter on the ruins of the Temple of Jerusalem. The Jews rebelled in 132, led by Simeon bar Kosba, who, according to one story, was hailed as a messiah by Akiba ben Joseph. He was called Bar Kokhba (“Son of the Star”), a messianic allusion drawn from the book of Numbers. His army captured Aelia and inflicted heavy casualties, but Hadrian visited the battlefield and summoned reinforcements, and the Romans retook Jerusalem. Bar Kokhba was killed at Betar in 135, and the remnant of the Jewish army was soon crushed, with total Jewish losses, according to the 3rd-century Roman historian Dio Cassius, numbering 580,000. Surviving Jews were exiled and barred from Jerusalem.

Bar Kochba, Bar Kokhba, Bar Kosba

Simeon. died 135 ad. Jewish leader who led an unsuccessful revolt against the Romans in Palestine

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It was found in a cave in the Judaean Hills near Jerusalem that served as a hiding place for the Jewish fighters during the so-called Bar Kokhba revolt (132-136 CE), named after its leader.

Cache of coins from Jewish revolt found in Israel by AFP / AFP Global Edition

if the author refers to the year Jerusalem's Second Temple was destroyed, or the year 139 if he means the destruction of the rural settlements of Judah at the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt, it said.

Israeli police recover 2,000-year-old papyrus by Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia)