Antiquity
Judeo-Roman War
67-70·Galilée et Judée
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Jotapata, Tarichée, Gamla, Jerusalem (destruction of the Temple, 70)
The war opened by the revolt of 66 lasted seven years. Vespasian, sent by Nero, first subdued Galilee: Jotapata fell after a siege of forty-seven days, and its commander, the future historian Flavius Josèphe, went over to the Romans; Tarichaea, Gamla, and Mount Tabor followed.
Proclaimed emperor, Vespasian left to his son Titus the siege of Jérusalem. The city, torn between the factions of Jean de Gischala, Simon bar Giora, and the Zealots, was encircled in the spring; the famine there was such that Josèphe gives it the longest account in his book. The Temple burned on the 9th of the month of Av in the year 70, a date that the Jewish calendar has preserved as a fast day, alongside the destruction of the First Temple.
Titus celebrated his triumph in Rome, where the arch bearing his name still shows the menorah carried away from the sanctuary. Judea became an imperial province; the Temple tax was diverted to the benefit of Jupiter Capitolinus.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Military repression
- Region :
- Land of Israel
- Country :
- Terre d'Israël
Flavius Josèphe, *La Guerre des Juifs* ; Tacite, *Histoires* ; Dion Cassius.