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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.
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Roman government took several anti-Jewish measures, and it looked as if the old nation had been destroyed
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was a Roman colony, built under the emperor Hadrian on the site of Jerusalem
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rebellion of the Jews of Judea Province, led by Simon bar Kokhba, against the Roman Empire. Fought circa.
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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
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was the Jewish leader of what is known as the Bar Kokhba revolt against the Roman Empire
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s the biblical, Roman, and modern name of the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel
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It was established by the merge of Roman Syria and Roman Judaea
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widely known as Rabbi Akiva was a tanna of the latter part of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century
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the first major written redaction of the Jewish oral traditions known as the "Oral Torah".
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Compilation of the Mishnah by Judah ha-Nasi
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those who speak over the people
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a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רַבִּי rabi
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Proselytizing for Judaism is punishable by death in the Roman Empire
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Compilation of the Jerusalem Talmud
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Compilation of the Babylonian Talmud
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Karaite sect rejects Rabbinic Judaism
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Rashi (Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac)
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First Crusade prompts anti-Jewish violence in France and Germany
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Maimondies publishes Mishneh Torah, a compendium of Jewish law of great importance
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Maimonides becomes court physician to Saladin
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Hadrian was born Publius Aelius Hadrianus to an ethnically Italian family. Although Italica near Santiponce
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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.
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Saadiah Gaon writes the Book of Beliefs and Opinions