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135
jewish diaspora
refers to the Jews who left the region of the Kingdom of Judah and Roman Judaea as well as those who later emigrated from wider Eretz Israel. -
135
Roman governors ban circumcision
Roman government took several anti-Jewish measures, and it looked as if the old nation had been destroyed -
135
Aelia Capitolina
was a Roman colony, built under the emperor Hadrian on the site of Jerusalem -
136
Bar Kokhab Revolt
rebellion of the Jews of Judea Province, led by Simon bar Kokhba, against the Roman Empire. Fought circa. -
136
Jerusalem
located on a plateau in the Judean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea, is one of the oldest cities in the world. It is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Israelis and Palestinians both claim Jerusalem as their capital -
136
Simon bar Kokhba
was the Jewish leader of what is known as the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire -
136
Judea
s the biblical, Roman, and modern name of the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel -
136
Syria Palaestina
It was established by the merge of Roman Syria and Roman Judaea -
137
Akiva ben Joseph
widely known as Rabbi Akiva was a tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century -
200
Mishnah
the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions known as the "Oral Torah". -
200
Judah ha-Nasi
Compilation of the Mishnah by Judah ha-Nasi -
220
Amoraim
those who speak over the people -
220
Rabbi
a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רַבִּי rabi -
337
death in the Roman Empire
Proselytizing for Judaism is punishable by death in the Roman Empire -
425
Jerusalem Talmud
Compilation of the Jerusalem Talmud -
500
Babylonian Talmud
Compilation of the Babylonian Talmud -
Oct 13, 700
Rabbinic Judaism
Karaite sect rejects Rabbinic Judaism -
Oct 13, 1040
Rashi
Rashi (Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac) -
Oct 13, 1096
First Crusade
First Crusade prompts anti-Jewish violence in France and Germany -
Oct 13, 1165
Jewish law
Maimondies publishes Mishneh Torah, a compendium of Jewish law of great importance -
Oct 13, 1180
Maimonides
Maimonides becomes court physician to Saladin -
Hadrian
Hadrian was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus to an ethnically Italian family. Although Italica near Santiponce -
Tisha B'Av
s an annual fast day in Judaism which commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem and the subsequent exile of the Jews from the Land of Israel. -
Saadiah Gaon
Saadiah Gaon writes the Book of Beliefs and Opinions