DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM 70 A.D. AND 135 A.D. BY THE ROMANS TITUS’ SIEGE OF JERUSALEM Roman-Jewish Wars: name of several military engagements between the Roman Republic (later: Empire) and various groups of Jews between 63 BCE and 136 CE. Pompey’s Siege of Jerusalem Annexation The Jewish War (66-70) The Siege of Jerusalem Chronology 66-74 Masada Trajan’s War Bar Kochba TITUS’ SIEGE OF JERUSALEM Titus His father’s accession to the Roman throne left the war against the Jews to Titus . He was not a very experienced general, but his assistant was Tiberius Julius Alexander , who had been governor of Judaea in 46-48 and knew how to fight a war. Titus’ own quality was that the new emperor, his father, could trust him. His father’s strategy, to allow the Jews in Jerusalem to destroy themselves, had been successful. Besides the Zealots of Eleaser son of Simon and the private army of John of Gischala ...
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