In 132 AD, Simeon Bar Kosiba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Simon Bar Kokhba ('son of a star'), led the people of Judaea and Galilee in open rebellion, aiming to oust the occupying Romans and establish their own independent Jewish state.
During the ensuing 'Bar Kokhba Revolt' (the Second Jewish War), the Jewish rebels held their own against the crack Roman troops for four years.
The cost of this rebellion was catastrophic: hundreds of thousands of casualties, the destructio.
Osprey Publishing (uk) The bar kokhba war ad 132-135: the last jewish revolt against imperial rome, paperback/lindsay powell
