Their trial likely took place sometime between 129 and 131 C.E., after the Jewish Diaspora revolt and just before the Bar Kokhba revolt. As the researchers found, the papyrus implies that Gadalias ...

In a new blog on papyrology, Roman historian Anna Dolganov discusses the publication of a remarkable new papyrus from Israel, dating to the years between two massive Jewish rebellions against ...

The one thing that does happen in the second revolt... is [that] the self-consciously apocalyptic and messianic identity of Bar Kochba forces the issue for the Christian tradition. It appears that ...

This was unusual as the Roman Empire had tried to suppress the religion after a revolt had occurred in ... The resultant Bar-Kochba rebellion caused Emperor Hadrian to expel the Jews from the ...