How did the roman empire effect judaism?

Answer 1

Judea was an economic backwater of the Roman Empire (apart from Caesarea being an important port for shipping goods from Arabia and Jordan to Rome) and a minor province. It affected the empire in two ways. One was the Jewish rebellions. The other was its being the birthplace of Christianity which spread through the empire, became the religion of the masses in the empire and eventually mainstream Christianity became the state region of the empire (but not the dissident doctrines, which were persecuted).

Answer 2

Although the Jewish rebelled against the Romans several times, this had little effect on the Roman Empire because Judea was a tiny province of the empire. It had an big, but indirect effect on the empire via religion. It was the birthplace of Christianity. Christianity spread around the empire and in 380 mainstream Christianity became the state religion of the empire.

Answer 3

In 67, the Romans deployed several legions to suppress a widespread Jewish rebellion (the Great Revolt or First Roman-Jewish War) and overrun Galilee. In 70 they besieged Jerusalem for seven months. They then broke though and destroyed the city and the Second Temple, killed many people and took 97,000 slaves.

The destruction of the Second Temple was a turning point in Jewish history. The temple stopped to be the focus of religious life. Judaism responded by concentrating on the commandments of the Torah. The synagogues replaced the temple as a central meeting place, and the rabbis replaced high priests of the Temple as Jewish community leaders. Therefore, the period is called the rabbinic period. The Rabbis filled the void in Jewish leadership and with their literature and teachings, shaped a new form of Judaism.

Answer 4

It completed Rome's occupation pf the seaboard of its eastern frontier.