Sunday morning cannot be better spent than eating a bagel, drinking coffee and reading through the latest issue of the Biblical Archaeological Review. The September/October issue has two fascinating articles on the second Jewish revolt (the "Bar Kochba Revolt"), talking about the historical and archaeological sources, the degree of seriousness with which the revolt was taken by the Romans, and the degree of destruction which resulted. Not much in the way of contemporaneous reporting (there was no Josephus), but more and more discoveries on the ground substantiating the basic information which had been provided by Roman historian Cassius Dio.
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