Comparing The Kitos War And The Bar Kokhba Revolt

The Roman Jewish War, much like many other ancient revolutions and battles, is a war that goes mostly unknown in today’s times. What many do not know is that this war, which consisted of three major revolutions by the jewish people against the Roman Empire from 66 to 135 AD, was the largest and most devastating revolution against the powerful ancient Roman Empire. Like most revolutions throughout history a faction of people, in this case the Jewish population in the Eastern Mediterranean area, felt as if they were being wrongly prosecuted by the Roman government and wished for a free and separate Judaean state. It must be noted that this war is considered a massive disaster for the Jewish society as hundreds of thousands of Jews were either

The Kitos War was by far the bloodiest of the two as there were major revolts in Cyrene, Cyprus, Mesopotamia, and Aegyptus. These rebellions throughout the Mediterranean resulted in the widespread massacre of Roman citizens. The Bar Kokhba Revolt actually created an independent state of Israel, but only for two short years. The Roman Emperor at the time, Hadrian, actually tried to destroy the Jewish religion as he believed that it was causing too many problems for his empire. Hadrian banned the Torah, the Hebrew Calendar, and circumcision from Rome as well as changing the name of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina. This was done to try and wipe both the current Jewish beliefs as well as the history of Judaism from the

With Jerusalem destroyed, Paul and others followers of the Jerusalem Church, which was a section of Judaism, began to spread the word of Jesus throughout Rome and the surrounding area to Gentiles. No one had a greater effect on spreading Christianity than Paul did, Paul was actually quite radical as he preached the teachings of Jesus Christ to Gentiles as they too could get God’s salvation. This can also be seen by looking at The New Testament as fourteen of the twenty-seven books in The New Testament have been linked to Paul. With Paul and other apostles spreading the word of Jesus after his death and resurrection the Early Church and Judaism began to clash which then caused the teachings of Jesus to break off. In short the Roman Jewish War gave the teachings of Jesus Christ the ability to take hold in ancient Europe which allowed those teachings to break off and form a new religion,