Talk:History of the Jews in the Roman Empire

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Needs discussion of 20,000 Jewish slaves brought to Rome after fall of Jerusalem
... and who were used to build the Colosseum. WritingMan (talk) 13:23, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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Orphaned references in History of the Jews in the Roman Empire
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of History of the Jews in the Roman Empire's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 00:39, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Challenging the statement "Following the Bar Kokhba revolt Jews were reduced to a completely diaspora people."
I apologize if this is not the appropriate way to do this. I didn't want to edit the page directly, as I'm not a seasoned Wikipedia editor by any means, just a casual reader.

This seemed to be a VERY strong statement concerning Jewish life following the Bar Kochba revolt in the second century and I'm not sure if the source used to make such a strong statement is directly on point - for one, it's not a history book, it's a Christian discussion of ethics written as an analysis of modern political conflict. Not an appropriate source to make this claim.

In any event, thought it is well-documented that almost all Jews were expelled from Jerusalem by the Romans following the Bar Kokhba revolt, it is also well-documented that there still remained a strong Jewish presence in the former Kingdoms of Israel and Judea (now named Syria Palaestina following the Bar Kokhba revolt). Romans permitted Jews to move to other centers of Jewish learning in Syria Palaestina and Jewish life and scholarship, though no longer at the level it was prior to the Bar Kochba revolt, eventually flourished again. Almost immediately after the failure of the Bar Kochba revolt, Jewish learning in Yavne flourished and produced the Mishna - the first written work of the "Oral Torah." Additionally, the Galilee region was relatively untouched during the Bar Kochba revolt and continued as a center of learning. The Jerusalem Talmud was written in the 4th and 5th centuries, primarily by Jewish centers of learning in Tiberias and Caesarea. Further, Tiberias is where the ben Asher family and other Masoretes in the 5th and 6th century developed and ultimately set down what has become the dominant form of (or at least the primary influence on) today's cantillation and pronunciation of the Tanakh.

It's also a bit misleading to couch the development of the Mishnah and Talmud as diasporic when the Mishnah was written in Syria Palaestina and the first Talmud (i.e., the Jerusalem Talmud) was primarily written in Syria Paleastina - not in "diaspora."

Point is, I'm not a scholar by any means on this subject and can point to several examples that show this statement to be clearly false on its face. 2603:8000:D500:24AA:C9C2:32CE:C30A:FFA3 (talk) 19:09, 8 December 2023 (UTC)