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The Jewish War
Flavius Josephus, c. 75 CE, Josephus, The Jewish War (Bellum Judaicum), Greek text with the Whiston and Thackeray translations
Primary bookThe Jewish War, Flavius Josephus, c. 75 CE
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MisleadingAwaiting review
The 1834 attacks came inside a revolt against Egyptian conscription, and Egypt's army sacked Hebron
“The 1834 attacks on Jewish communities in Safed and Hebron in which synagogues were burnt down and dozens of Jews were murdered, some of them through lynching suggest that local anti-Semitism was rising before Theodor Herzl was even born, much less created Modern Zionism.”
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The First Revolt lasted seven years, 66 to 73 CE, not three
“After the first, which it took the Romans three years to put down, Rome destroyed the temple.”