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SUMMARY:Bar Kokhbah and the Rabbis: Making and Recounting Catastrophe
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Sixty-five years separate the two catastrophes of Talmudic time: the destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE) and the destruction of Jewish Judaea (135 CE).The Talmud is not necessarily a reliable history book, but it can teach us about the history of the years between the wars, the atrocities at Beitar, and rebuilding Jewish life in the Galilee after the war. By comparing the various layers of the Talmud and Midrash, learn about the role that religious ideology and leadership played in these events, about Rabbinic self-criticism and self-righteousness, and about the place of reality and myth in Talmudic retellings of catastrophe.=0D=0A=
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