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Siege and destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, painted c. 1504. According to the article on Rome in The Jewish Encyclopedia, [5] Jews have lived in Rome for over 2,000 years, longer than in any other European city. They originally went there from Alexandria, drawn by the lively commercial intercourse between those two cities.
[44]: 97–103 The Romans did not distinguish between Jews inside and outside of the Land of Israel/Judaea. They collected an annual temple tax from Jews both in and outside of Israel. The suppression of the diaspora uprisings of 116–117 CE resulted in the near-total destruction of Jewish communities in Cyrenaica and Egypt. [ 47 ]
Rome renamed the province from Judaea to Syria Palaestina and banned Jews from living in Jerusalem and its vicinity. While Jewish communities had existed outside Judea before the revolts, the aftermath of the wars led to a significant shift in the center of Jewish population and cultural life from the Land of Israel to the diaspora.
In chapter 10 of his book on the Apostolic Christian 7th Day Sabbath: History of the Sabbath, J. N. Andrews cites the historians, including Josephus, that verify the departure of the Christians whilst the Romans are mysteriously departing, noting that the Jewish forces hounding the Roman army were therefore too busy to prevent the Christians ...
[291] [289] In the book, Rome is depicted as an unjust empire destined to fall—not by human hands, but through divine judgment, executed by the Messiah. [292] The text conveys that divine justice is not immediately apparent but will be revealed in the long term, when Israel is restored and its enemies punished. [284]
The period of World War II and the Holocaust was a time of immense suffering and tragedy for the Jewish community in Rome. The Nazi occupation of Rome and the implementation of the "Final Solution" had devastating effects on the Jewish population, leading to widespread persecution, deportation, and murder. In early September 1943, following the ...
The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World: The Jews of Palestine from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest. Routledge. ISBN 9780415305877. Schwartz, Seth (2006). "Political, social, and economic life in the Land of Israel, 66–c. 235". In Katz, Steven T. (ed.). The Late Roman-Rabbinic Period. The Cambridge History of Judaism. Vol. 4.
The Roman–Jewish Treaty was an agreement made between Judas Maccabeus and the Roman Republic according to the book 1 Maccabees and Josephus's Jewish Antiquities. It took place around 161 BCE and was the first recorded contract between Judea and Ancient Rome. The Romans apparently extended an offer of aid to the Judean rebel side of the ...