The New York Review of Books recently devoted a lot of space to a review of “The Sword and the.
After the destruction of the Temple, the center of Jewish life in Palestine shifted from Jerusalem and its surroundings, to the Galilee. This is clear from the large number of impressive synagogue ruins in evidence today at sites such as Beit Alpha, Bar-am, and Capernaum, but above all, the extensive ruins and mosaics that have been uncovered in recent decades at Tzippori (the Roman Sepphoris).
I learned only recently that there were two additional revolts by Jews in Palestine against Roman rule. In both, the rebels tried to take advantage of Roman preoccupation with disturbances elsewhere in the Empire.