William Horbury's academic history treats the diaspora revolts of 115 to 117 CE, chiefly in Cyrenaica, Egypt, Cyprus and Mesopotamia, alongside the later Bar Kokhba Revolt of 132 to 135 as a connected sequence of Jewish uprisings against Roman rule spanning Trajan's and Hadrian's reigns. Horbury was Emeritus Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies at the University of Cambridge, and the work draws on the Greek, Latin and rabbinic sources for the revolts alongside papyrological and archaeological evidence from Egypt and Cyrenaica.
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Reliability TierA peer-reviewed academic monograph from a major university press by a specialist in Jewish and early Christian history, drawing directly on the surviving Greek, Latin and rabbinic sources for the revolts alongside papyrological and archaeological evidence; treated as a top-tier scholarly source. NotesCited here for the Kitos War of 115 to 117 CE; the same volume also treats the later Bar Kokhba Revolt already live on this atlas under its own entity. 1 Citation
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