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Bar Kokhba Revolt (132-135)

The Bar Kokhba Revolt was the revolt of the Jews against Rome sixty years after the destruction of the second Temple and Jerusalem. Bar Kochba was the last independent Jewish ruler of the Jews in Palestine in Late Antiquity. Rabbi Akiva proclaimed Bar Kochba (known as Bar Koziba in the rabbinic collections) to be the Messiah, although that designation was not widely accepted by his contemporaries.

Gary Porton argues that the defeat of Bar Kochba by the 10th legion of Rome marks a crucial transition in the development of post-Temple, rabbinic Judaism. Emperor Hadrian razed the Temple Mount, renamed Jerusalem and forcibly moved the Jews from Judea to the Galilee, causing the center of Rabbinic Judaism to move from Yavneh to the Galilean city of Usha. It was at this point that the second major phase of rabbinic Judaism began, and is associated with the writing and redaction of the Palestinian Talmud.