The Jacob and Simon uprising ; (Hebrew: מרד יעקב וסימון) was a revolt instigated in Roman Judea by brothers Simon and Jacob in 46–48 CE. The revolt began...

in Mark and Matthew (Matthew 10, Matthew 10:4, Mark 3,Mark 3:18) Two of Judas of Galilee's sons, Jacob and Simon, were involved in a revolt and were executed...

BCE Maccabean revolt 167–141 BCE Judas of Galilee uprisings in 4 BCE and 6 CE Jacob and Simon uprising 46 CE Jewish–Roman wars 66–135 First Jewish–Roman...

final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 AD on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel. The siege is known to history via...

Jewish–Roman War, books I and II. The next five books detail the unfolding of the war, under Roman generals Vespasian and Titus, to the death of the...

their control and launched a series of sieges and raids to remove the rebel factions. The rebels eventually silenced the uprising and Jerusalem stayed...

Simon (Hebrew: אלעזר בן שמעון) was a Zealot leader during the First Jewish-Roman War who fought against the armies of Cestius Gallus, Vespasian, and Titus...

48 CE, the Romans crucified Jacob and Simon, sons of Judas of Galilee. Clashes erupted between Jews and Samaritans, and by the early 50s CE, the Sicarii...

revolt suppressed 46–48: Jacob and Simon uprising in the Galilee – revolt suppressed 60–61: Boudican revolt by Iceni, Trinovantes and other Celtic tribes in...

The fourth-century Church Father Eusebius of Caesarea and Epiphanius of Salamis cite a tradition that before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 the...

aired on the ABC Network in 1977, and Shogun, which aired on NBC in 1980. In the year 70 AD, with the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second...

tax imposed on Jews in the Roman Empire after the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in AD 70. The fiscus Iudaicus replaced the traditional half-shekel...

challenged in April 69 by Simon Bar Giora. They were both in turn challenged by a third faction led by Eleazar ben Simon. John and the Zealots fought in the...

did not stop the tensions completely, and in 46 an insurrection led by two brothers, the Jacob and Simon uprising, broke out in the Judea province. The...

Jewish strongholds Herodium and Machaerus on their march to the siege of Masada. Bassus fell ill and died on the way, however, and was replaced by Lucius Flavius...

Gaius Cestius Gallus (d. 67 AD) was a Roman senator and general who was active during the Principate. He was suffect consul for the second nundinium of...

antiquities and The Jewish war. Kregel Academic. ISBN 978-0-8254-3260-6. Painter, John (2004). "Who was James?". In Chilton, Bruce; Neusner, Jacob (eds.)....

(Yosef ben Matityahu) was appointed the commander in Galilee and Golan, while Josephus Simon (Yosef ben Shimon) was appointed commander of Jericho, John...

wife Poppaea. He was noted for his antagonism toward the Judean and Jewish population, and is credited by Josephus as being the primary cause of the First...

historian in studying the social and economic history of the uprising, the study of the Zealots party as an independent and as a self-sufficient political...

Ashkelon, which remained loyal to the Roman Empire, along with John the Essene and Silas the Babylonian, both of whom died. He later led another failed attack...

Remnants of the rebel government summoned the peasant faction headed by Simon bar Giora to Jerusalem, in order to stand against the rampaging Zealots...

Simon bar Giora and Eleazar ben Simon fought each other, destroying food supplies and weakening defenses. Although the factions eventually united and...

Judaea Capta coins (also spelled Judea Capta, and, on many of the coins, IVDAEA CAPTA) were a series of commemorative coins originally issued by the Roman...

by Simon Bar Giora, Eleazar ben Simon and other rebel generals succeeded in inflicting a humiliating defeat, killing some 6,000 Roman troops and capturing...

nearby Jewish settlement, and killed 700 of its inhabitants. Josephus' account is the only known record of the pillage and its perpetrators. Pliny the...

was a late-1st-century Roman general, governor of the province of Iudaea and consul. Silva was the commander of the army, composed mainly of the Legio...

included shekels, half-shekels, and quarter-shekels, each being labelled with the year of minting and their denomination. and depict a chalice on the obverse...

and the longest except for Jerusalem and Masada. The siege was chronicled by Josephus, who had personally commanded the Jewish forces at Yodfat and was...

Hazeldine as Flavius Silva Jonas Armstrong as Yoav Luke Roberts as Jachim Ben Simon Fiona O'Shaughnessy as Channa Andrei Claude as Sa' Adollos Kenneth Spiteri...