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The Second Jewish Revolt against the Roman dominion (132-135 CE) considerably changed the political and cultural landscape of Jewish Palestine. Judaea was almost completely devastated, and Jewish life shifted from Judaea to the Galilee. The Roman victory, however, was won at great cost.The last decade has seen some stunning developments in research on the Bar Kokhba War. In particular, recent archaeological findings provide new material for evaluation. This volume is based on a conference which took place in November 2001 at Princeton University and gathers a distinguished array of scholars working at the forefront of research on the Bar Kokhba period. It appraises the state of the subject in light of the present scholarly discussion and evaluates the historical importance of this major event and its repercussions for the subsequent history of the Jews in Roman Palestine. A concluding essay investigates the use of Bar Kokhba's image in modern Israeli culture.
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Peter Schäfer, geboren 1943, emeritierter Lehrstuhlinhaber, war von 1974 - 83 Professor für Judaistik am Martin-Buber-Institut der Universität Köln, ab 1983 an der Freien Universität Berlin. Ab 1998 gleichzeitig Professor an der Universität Princeton. Gastprofessuren an der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem, am Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, an der Universität Yale und am Jewish Theological Seminary of America. 1994 Leibniz-Preis. 2006 Mellon Award. 2007/08 Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. 2014 Dr. Leopold Lucas-Preis der Universität Tübingen.
