The Jewish revolt led by Bar Kochba in 132 AD was not the work of a single if a single radical revolutionary. It was the inevitable result of years of promises not kept to the Jews, and laws which suppressed the basis of Jews as a nation. To understand the reason for Bar Kochba’s Revolt one must go back many years even before the war. Prior to Hadrian, an emperor by the name of Trajan was the ruler of the Roman empire. Due to the rebellion of the Jews in the Diaspora to the east and the west of them
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
Peter, is thought to be written by the apostle Peter. The Apocalypse of Peter marks the beginning of the end times with the introduction of a false prophet, during the time this book was written, Bar