Mark Kennicott

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The effects of the Bar Kokhba war (132–135 CE) were equally serious. Judea was ruined, thousands of people were killed or enslaved, the Romans rebuilt Jerusalem as a pagan city and renamed the country Palestine (“land of the Philistines”) instead of Judea (“land of the Jews”).
From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
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