From Bar-Kokhba to the Mishna

After 138 CE, Jewish life and culture in the Land of Israel revived on Roman terms. Hebrew literature does not show how fully its existence and development were owing to the Pax Romana. Synagogues and rabbinic homiletics could not have flourished in the latter half of the second century CE, and the Mishna could not have been edited, without Roman tolerance. It was created by rabbis answerable to and protected by the Roman government (Baron, 1952, II 243).

Authors and Affiliations

1. Baltimore Hebrew University, USA

   Moshe Aberbach (Professor Emeritus)

2. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

   David Aberbach (Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Visiting Academic)

3. London School of Economics, UK

   David Aberbach (Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Visiting Academic)

© 2000 Moshe Aberbach and David Aberbach

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