Bar Kokhba was identified as their messiah, during the third and last Roman-Jewish war. Bar Kokhba genocided every greek and roman person he could find and created a new “Israel” for about 2 years. The Romans eventually marched back in with a massive army of 12 legions and counter genocided the whole place, shattering Judaism for a millenia.
I’d recommend reading the wikipedia articles from 2021, as that wikipedia has been a battleground of rewrites in the past 4 years, all focussed on rewriting it completely to change the narrative to Romans: pretty bad, jewish rebels: pretty good.
Bar Kokhba was identified as their messiah, during the third and last Roman-Jewish war. Bar Kokhba genocided every greek and roman person he could find and created a new “Israel” for about 2 years. The Romans eventually marched back in with a massive army of 12 legions and counter genocided the whole place, shattering Judaism for a millenia.
I’d recommend reading the wikipedia articles from 2021, as that wikipedia has been a battleground of rewrites in the past 4 years, all focussed on rewriting it completely to change the narrative to Romans: pretty bad, jewish rebels: pretty good.
heres the older version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bar_Kokhba_revolt&oldid=1039570569
Heres the current rewritten one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba_revolt