• Simon bar Giora (alternatively known as Simeon bar Giora or Simon ben Giora or Shimon bar Giora, Imperial Aramaic: שִׁמְעוֹן בַּר גִּיּוֹרָא or Hebrew:...
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  • Bar-Giora (Hebrew: בר גיורא) was a Jewish militia of the Second Aliyah, the precursor of Hashomer. Bar Giora's founder, Israel Shochat made his Aliyah...
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    was executed, and the remaining Sicarii were ejected from the city. Simon bar Giora, a peasant leader, was also expelled by the new government. The Roman...
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    called Eitanim, until residents eventually settled on the name Bar-Giora, after Simon Bar Giora. The Yemenite immigrants, dissatisfied with conditions in their...
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    upper and lower city. The Jewish defenders were split into factions. Simon Bar Giora and John of Giscala, the two prominent Zealot leaders, placed all blame...
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  • entirely attributed to Eleazar ben Simon, his inability to establish unity with John of Gischala and Simon bar Giora resulted in a bitter civil war that...
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    towards the coastal plain. The rebel Judean forces headed by Simon Bar Giora, Eleazar ben Simon and other rebel generals succeeded in inflicting a humiliating...
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  • footballer and coach Giora Yoseftal (1912–62), Israeli politician Jonathan Bar Giora (born 1962), Israeli composer and pianist Simon bar Giora (d. 70 CE), a...
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    Josephus Simon the Zealot, apostle of Jesus Simon bar Giora, (died 70 CE), Judean leader in the First Jewish-Roman War Simon bar Kokhba Simon of Bet-Parsaje...
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    control of the city failed, resulting in his execution. A peasant leader Simon bar Giora was ousted from the city by the new moderate Judaean government and...
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  • was 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...
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    Jerusalem in 70 AD, during which time his parents were held as hostages by Simon bar Giora. While being confined at Yodfat (Jotapata), Josephus claimed to have...
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    into Sulla's time (early 1st century BC). However the execution of Simon bar Giora was as late as the time of Vespasian. There is a Latin phrase, Arx...
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  • clearly marked out (before the first war of 66–70/3) as some have thought. Simon the Zealot was listed among the apostles selected by Jesus in the Gospel...
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    ben Simon, eventually fell under the command of the Galilean leader John of Gush Halav; and the other northern rebel commander, Simon Bar Giora, managed...
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  • Yohanan ben Zakkai Evangeline Lilly - Queen Berenice Billy Zane - Simon bar Giora Marilu Henner - Mother of Ben Batich and sister of Rabban Yohanan ben...
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    Tiberius. Fell from power, was imprisoned there and then executed. Simon bar Giora, Jewish revolutionary leader. Captured in Judea and brought to Rome...
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    peasant faction headed by Simon bar Giora to Jerusalem, in order to stand against the rampaging Zealots. While the charismatic Bar Giora took over much of the...
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  • change his surname to Ben-Gurion. Asia portal Biography portal Simon bar Giora Simon bar Kokhba Ben Zion, S. A Roadmap to the Heavens: An Anthropological...
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    remaining stump of the Herodian tower. During the Jewish war with Rome, Simon bar Giora made the tower his place of residence. Following the destruction of...
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    Rupture Victor 2022 Hellblazers Joshua 2023 Legend of Destruction Simon bar Giora English dub Centurion: The Dancing Stallion Jeffrey Hall The Oath King...
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    including the Menorah and the Pentateuch. The leader of the Zealots, Simon Bar Giora, is lashed and strangled in the Forum. Titus is made praetorian prefect...
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    David (redirect from David Bar Jesse)
    Joseph Heller wrote a novel based on David called God Knows, published by Simon & Schuster. Told from the perspective of an aging David, the humanity—rather...
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    The leaders of the collapsed Northern revolt, John of Giscala and Simon Bar Giora, managed to escape to Jerusalem, but brutal civil war erupted as the...
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    Agrippa II Jewish-Roman Wars Ananus ben Ananus John of Giscala Simon Bar Giora Simon bar Kokhba See also List of Jewish leaders gəḇīrōṯ (Italics indicate...
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    Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of its Stories. New York: Simon & Schu. ISBN 0-684-86912-8. Kuhrt, Amélie (1995). The Ancient Near East...
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    Will (1953). The Renaissance. The Story of Civilization. Vol. 5. New York: Simon and Schuster. ASIN B000HMTXTK. Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). Misquoting Jesus:...
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    scholars. During the First Jewish war with Rome, insurgent leader Simon bar Giora is said to have held out in caves in this valley, known formerly as...
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    agreed to set up an underground military organisation - Bar-Giora, named after Simon Bar Giora. Its slogan was: "Judea fell in blood and fire; Judea shall...
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    place mentioned by Josephus as the birthplace of Jewish Zealot leader Simon bar Giora, but other scholars identify it with modern-day Jurish. In the second...
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