It once happened that Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar Ben Azaryah, Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Tarfon were reclining in ...

Yigael Yadin of the Hebrew University. The diggings have shed new light on the revolt led by Bar Kochba during the period 132-135 of the Common Era, according to scientists with the expedition.

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 ...

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 ...