Simon bar kokhba death note

The political leader of the second Jewish revolt against Rome (a.d. 132–35).

Simon bar kokhba death note

From autograph letters written by him to various officers under his command and found in 1951, 1960, and 1961 in caves of the wadies Murabba’āt, Seiyâl, and Ḫabra in Jordan and Israel (see dead sea scrolls), it is certain that his name was Simon ben Kosibah (šm‘wn bn kwsbh, attested in a Greek letter as ΣιμωνΧωσιβα).

In rabbinical writings (e.g., Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin, 11.1, 2, folio 93b) his name is given as bar (or ben ) Koziba, "son of the lie." This form is probably the result of a wordplay on his name (Hebrew kzb, "to lie"), which originated with the Jews who either did not approve of his uprising or ironically reflected later on its ill-fated outcome.

Rabbi akiba ben joseph, who approved of the revolt, regarded him as a messiah (Jerusalem T