An unprecedented discovery in the Judean Desert has unveiled a nearly 2,000-year-old papyrus, shedding light on a Roman corruption trial in the lead-up to the Bar Kokhba revolt. The document, the ...

A sensational new papyrus from Israel documents fraud and sedition on the eve of a major Jewish revolt against Rome in the ...

The document, over 133 lines long, is the most extensive of its kind ever found in the Judean Desert. Believed to date back to the years leading up to the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE), it provides ...

Dolganov. This criminal case unfolded between two major Jewish uprisings against Roman rule: the Jewish Diaspora revolt (115–117 CE) and the Bar Kokhba revolt (132–136 CE). Notably ...

and before the Bar Kokhba revolt began in A.D. 132 — a major Jewish uprising against the Roman Empire. "This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus ...

This betrayal led Shimon Bar Kokhba to lead the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 132 CE. In guerilla warfare fashion ... in what came to be known as the diaspora. Three major sub-communities were created: Mizrahi ...