re: #211 buzzsawmonkey

Actually, no: when the Romans destroyed the Temple and crushed the First Revolt they struck coins that said, “Judea Capta.”

It was not until the Second Revolt—the Bar Kochba Revolt, some 70 years later—that they changed the name of Judea to “Palestine,” changed the name of Jerusalem to “Aeolia Capitolina,” and forbade Jews to enter the city on pain of death.

The ethnic cleansing was from the Second, not the First, Revolt.

Right. I have a Bar Kochba revolt coin with “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” on it.