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According to the Cambridge Ancient History (Volume XI The High Empire 70AD - 192AD) Jerusalem was razed and its inhabitants killed or enslaved after the end of the First Roman-Jewish War. Land was confiscated, although some was sold to the original owners. Jews still inhabited Galilee, Transjordan and parts of the Judean countryside in large numbers. So, those Jews allowed to remain free were not banished. It was after the Second Roman-Jewish War (132 CE) that Jews were forbidden to reside in Aelia Capitolina (formerly Jerusalem) or its territory, resulting in a significant depopulation of Judea.
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∙ 9y agoThe Roman forcible deportation of Jews from Jerusalem was as a result to Jewish Zealot militant resistance to the Roman Empire's activities. In this retaliation, the Romans wanted to tread upon the people and crush any sense of national identity or power.
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∙ 9y agoThe political trigger to the Second Destruction and the forced exile from Jerusalem was the anti-Roman revolt fomented by the Zealots, who acted against the advice of the Rabbis and left the Romans no choice but to crush the people (Talmud, Gittin 56).
The spiritual reason was that the Jewish people were plagued by an internal enemy, the Sadducees, who had been dragging the spiritual level of the people downwards for many decades. These were men of power who (along the lines of the earlier Hellenizers) were less interested in Torah than in pleasure, politics, and obsequiousness to the Herodian kings and the Romans. Even the once-pious Hasmoneans had eventually become infiltrated by the Sadducees. They had fomented unnecessary wars, sown discord among the Jewish people (see Talmud, Yoma 9b), and had even killed a number of the leading Torah-sages (Talmud, Kidushin 66a).
A positive result: The Second Destruction, as painful and tragic as it was, at least accomplished the disappearance of the impious cliques (as alluded in the parable in the Talmud, Gittin 56b, in which the "barrel of honey" represents Jerusalem and the Temple, and the "serpent" hints to the Sadducees, among others). Once Jerusalem and the Temple were razed, the men of power melted away and the internal life of the Jewish communities returned to the aegis of the Torah-sages. (See: What did Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai do?)
Other non-traditional groups including the Samaritans and the Essenes also now permanently dissociated themselves from the Jewish people.
See also: Jewish history timeline
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∙ 7y agoThe Romans did not forc the Jews to leave Jerusalem. They took away 90,000 people as slaves.
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What was the year that the Romans burned the second temple in Jerusalem?
Jewish tradition places the Destruction of the Second Temple in the year 68 CE, not 70. See also:About the DestructionThe Jews and the RomansJewish traditional timeline
What is the date of the Dispersion of Jews?
The date usually given is that of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE, when they were suppressing a Jewish revolt against Roman rule.However, the Romans did not force the Jews out of Judea in a single expulsion. Rather, the Romans expelled them from Jerusalem only; and the rest of Judea lost its Jews slowly, over a period of centuries, as living there became too harsh.
What did the Romans forbid the Jews to do after the revolt in 70 C.E.?
In 70 CE the Great Revolt was still under way. It lasted form 66 CE to 73 CE. No prohibitions were imposed on the Jews by the Romans. This happened after the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132-35. The Jews were barred from Jerusalem except for Tisha B'Av. Jerusalem was rebuilt as a Roman town and was renamed Aelia Capitolina, after the family name of the emperor Hadrian and Jupiter Capitolinus, the chief Roman deity. Judea was renamed Syria Paleastina
Why did the Romans punish the Christians and Jews and force them out of the Holy Land in 70 AD?
After an uprising that involved the entire Jewish population of Palestine from 66 to 70 CE, the Romans finally succeeded in taking Jerusalem. They demolished the city but did not drive the Jews out of Palestine. It appears that the Christians had already fled across the River Jordan before the Roman seige of Jerusalem began. During the First Jewish War of 66-73 CE, the diaspora Jews elsewhere in the empire were reluctant to support their Palestinian co-religionists. However, the diaspora Jews staged uprisings in 115-117 CE, in Cyrene (Libya), Egypt, Mesopotamia and Cyprus, resulting in substantial loss of life. This time, the Jews of Palestine and Syria did not participate. The Second Jewish War broke out in 132 CE and continued until 136 CE. This time the Romans had lost patience. They expelled the Jews from Jerusalem and the surrounding area of Judea, although they allowed some to move to Galilee and the Palestinian coast.
When did the Jewish diaspora end?
The first Jewish Diaspora was the forcible exile to Babylon in 586 BCE. However, the famous second Jewish Diaspora happened under the Romans from 70 CE to 132 CE. Jewish Zealots had fought the Romans on these two occasions and the Romans had enough of it. The Romans realized that the Jews had a fundamental connection to the land, so separating them from it and from each other would make them more docile. As a result, the Romans evicted the majority of Jews from the province of Syria-Palaestina.
What caused the Hebrew Diaspora?
The Romans expelled the Jews from Israel in 70 CE.
In the year 70 CE the Romans gave the Jews their independence?
On the contrary, the Romans destroyed the Jewish Temple, sacked the city of Jerusalem, and banned the Jews from entering that area. See also:More about the Romans and Jews
When did the Jews lose the land of israel?
It happened in the year 70 CE, when the Romans destroyed the 2nd Temple.
What is the significance of Palestine to judaism and Hebrew people?
"Palestine" is the name the Romans gave to Israel after they expelled the Jews in 70 CE. Israel was and still is the Jewish homeland.The Romans chose the name "Palestine" after an enemy of the Jewish people, called the Philistines.
Why did the Jewish Diaspora begin?
The second Diaspora (70 CE to the present day) began when the Romans destroyed the 2nd Temple and expelled the Jews from Israel.
What was life like in Judea between 63 BCE to 70 CE?
The Jewish-Roman War happened which led to the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD.
Are there any Roman records of the sale of Jews as slaves?
After the Romans sacked Jerusalem in 70 CE. they are reported to have sold many women and children into slavery. Again, after the Jewish revolt of 132-135, the Romans sold many defeated Jews as slaves.
When was the temple Jesus prayed in destroyed?
In 70 CE by the Romans.
When did the Jews start returning to Israel?
Jews have been slowly returning to Israel every single year since the expulsion by the Romans in 70 CE. But modern Zionism really began in the late 19th Century.
What was the year that the Romans burned the second temple in Jerusalem?
Jewish tradition places the Destruction of the Second Temple in the year 68 CE, not 70. See also:About the DestructionThe Jews and the RomansJewish traditional timeline
What is the date of the Dispersion of Jews?
The date usually given is that of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 CE, when they were suppressing a Jewish revolt against Roman rule.However, the Romans did not force the Jews out of Judea in a single expulsion. Rather, the Romans expelled them from Jerusalem only; and the rest of Judea lost its Jews slowly, over a period of centuries, as living there became too harsh.
What key event caused judaism to scatter and lose their central habitat and cohesiveness?
The destruction of the 2nd Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 CE, followed by the expulsion of the Jews from Israel by the Romans.
