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To be fair the Jewish people had been largely spread into the diaspora or killed by that point thanks to the Romans siege of Jerusalem in 70AD and the fallowing

To be fair the Jewish people had been largely spread into the diaspora or killed by that point thanks to the Romans siege of Jerusalem in 70AD and the fallowing supression of rebellion revolts and sieges of other Jewish cities and settlements. Over a million Jews are said by concurrent historians to have been killed many of the remaining enslaved. Most of those remaining left spreading into the empire as they weren't even allowed into their capital city after the Romans rebuilt. The Romans then removed Judaea from the map and established the new governing districts of Syria and Palestine in its place. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(70_CE)

skissane 3y ago
> To be fair the Jewish people had been largely spread into the diaspora or killed by that point thanks to the Romans siege of Jerusalem in 70AD and the fallowing supression of rebellion revolts and sieges of other Jewish cities and settlements. Over a million Jews are said by concurrent historians to have been killed many of the remaining enslaved. That same Wikipedia article says: "Josephus' death toll figures have been rejected as impossible by Seth Schwartz, who estimates that about a million people lived in all of Palestine at the time, about half of them Jews, and that sizable Jewish populations remained in the area after the war was over, even in the hard-hit region of Judea. Schwartz, however, believes that the captive number of 97,000 is more reliable" The Judaean Jewish community was nowhere near wiped out by the 66–73 CE war, given the fact they were able to launch another sizeable rebellion against Roman rule (the Bar Kokhba revolt) in 132–136 CE. And even after the Bar Kokhba revolt, significant Jewish communities survived in what is now Israel/Palestine – of particular note is Judah ha-Nasi, the redactor of the Mishnah, who was born during the Bar Kokhba war. The office of Nasi (leader of the Jewish community in Israel/Palestine) continued until the death of Gamaliel VI in c. 425. The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius II refused to permit the appointment of a successor, which was arguably the decisive step in transferring the seat of leadership of the Jewish community from Galilee to Babylonia. While it is clear that many Jews were driven into exile, killed or enslaved, it is also likely that a significant number succumbed to the temptation/pressure to convert to Christianity (and later Islam). How many is difficult to say; I wonder how many Palestinian Arabs have Jewish ancestors, it is possibly a quite substantial number.
- selimthegrim 3y ago
  Certainly a lot of Palestinians in Hebron are of Samaritan ancestry.

skissane 3y ago

> To be fair the Jewish people had been largely spread into the diaspora or killed by that point thanks to the Romans siege of Jerusalem in 70AD and the fallowing supression of rebellion revolts and sieges of other Jewish cities and settlements. Over a million Jews are said by concurrent historians to have been killed many of the remaining enslaved. That same Wikipedia article says: "Josephus' death toll figures have been rejected as impossible by Seth Schwartz, who estimates that about a million people lived in all of Palestine at the time, about half of them Jews, and that sizable Jewish populations remained in the area after the war was over, even in the hard-hit region of Judea. Schwartz, however, believes that the captive number of 97,000 is more reliable" The Judaean Jewish community was nowhere near wiped out by the 66–73 CE war, given the fact they were able to launch another sizeable rebellion against Roman rule (the Bar Kokhba revolt) in 132–136 CE. And even after the Bar Kokhba revolt, significant Jewish communities survived in what is now Israel/Palestine – of particular note is Judah ha-Nasi, the redactor of the Mishnah, who was born during the Bar Kokhba war. The office of Nasi (leader of the Jewish community in Israel/Palestine) continued until the death of Gamaliel VI in c. 425. The Christian Roman Emperor Theodosius II refused to permit the appointment of a successor, which was arguably the decisive step in transferring the seat of leadership of the Jewish community from Galilee to Babylonia. While it is clear that many Jews were driven into exile, killed or enslaved, it is also likely that a significant number succumbed to the temptation/pressure to convert to Christianity (and later Islam). How many is difficult to say; I wonder how many Palestinian Arabs have Jewish ancestors, it is possibly a quite substantial number.

selimthegrim 3y ago
Certainly a lot of Palestinians in Hebron are of Samaritan ancestry.