Israel (and Palestine territories)

There are 230 items in Israel (and Palestine territories):

Annexation

Roman-Jewish Wars: name of several military engagements between the Roman Republic (later: Empire) and various groups of Jews between 63 BCE and 136 CE.Annexation of Judaea When king Herod the Great died in 4 BCE, the Roman emperor Augustus divided his kingdom…

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Jewish War (66-70)

Roman-Jewish Wars: name of several military engagements between the Roman Republic (later: Empire) and various groups of Jews between 63 BCE and 136 CE.Causes of the War of 66-70 …

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Chronology 66-74

Roman-Jewish Wars: name of several military engagements between the Roman Republic (later: Empire) and various groups of Jews between 63 BCE and 136 CE.Chronology of the Jewish War, 66-70 The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus offers a consistent chronology of the Jewish War…

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Masada

Roman-Jewish Wars: name of several military engagements between the Roman Republic (later: Empire) and various groups of Jews between 63 BCE and 136 CE.The Siege of Masada …

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Bar Kochba

Roman-Jewish Wars: name of several military engagements between the Roman Republic (later: Empire) and various groups of Jews between 63 BCE and 136 CE.Simon ben Kosiba …

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Sadducees

The Sadducees (sedûqîm) were one of the three main Jewish political and religious movements in the years between c.150 BCE and 70 CE. (The other movements were the Essenes and the Pharisees.) They had a conservative outlook and accepted only…

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Samaria

Samaria (Hebrew Šomron): residence of the kings of ancient Israel, and provincial capital in the Assyrian, Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Seleucid empires. The Jews of Jerusalem did not accept the religious ideas of the people of Samaria, but acknowledged that the…

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