Kokhba

Judea was renamed Palestina after the Bar-Kokhba revolt to evoke the Philistines, a group that inhabited the southern shore of what is now Israel and Gaza.

Matthew Yglesias » A Back and Forth on Israel 2009

The Bar Kokhba rebellion left many childless widows, who were in need of yibbum or halizah.

Akiva, Rabbi. 2009

We can only guess what happened to her between this date and the end of the Bar Kokhba revolt against Rome in 135, when her documents were carefully deposited in a cave inhabited by rebel refugees, who fled En-Gedi when the Roman forces occupied it.

Babatha. 2009

The failed Bar-Kokhba Revolt against the Romans in Judaea in AD 132-5, in which hundreds of thousands of Jews were exterminated, marks the symbolic end of the period of spoken Hebrew.

languagehat.com: HEBREW OR ISRAELI? 2005

On the surface, he is depicted like the archetypal mystical ascetic, a Bar Kokhba living in the wilderness where he will be free to practice his ritualistic beliefs.

Spector - Criticism - Critical Contexts 2002

The survivors of the Bar Kokhba rebellion fled north, and by the middle of the second century Sepphoris had become the center of Jewish learning in Palestine.

Israel Now 2000

The survivors of the Bar Kokhba rebellion fled north, and by the middle of the second century Sepphoris had become the center of Jewish learning in Palestine.

Israel Now 2000

Unlike Bar Kokhba and the zealots of Masada and Jerusalem, Rabbi Yehudah was a diplomat.

Israel Now 2000

Unlike Bar Kokhba and the zealots of Masada and Jerusalem, Rabbi Yehudah was a diplomat.

Israel Now 2000

In A.D. 132 an irascible warrior, Simeon Bar Kokhba, gathered the descendants of those who had survived the destruction of Jewish Jerusalem sixty-two years earlier and launched an ill-fated revolt against the Roman authorities, which the Emperor Hadrian crushed in 135.

Israel Now 2000