re: #585 Obdicut

I don’t think that it’s ‘revisionism’, it’s just looking at ancient events through modern eyes. We take freedom of religion somewhat for granted, and so a revolt partially based on the desire to practice one’s religion comes across as ‘zealotry’ to many modern readers, I think, including whatever historian LostLake was using for his post.

Pax Romana, I might add, doesn’t really have much to do with policy towards conquered territories; it was mostly an ending of the civil wars and a general halt of expansion of the empire.

Some territories fared very well under the Romans, others were heavily oppressed; it was mostly a matter of the local governors.

indeed it is looking at things though modern eyes. the jews of the time experienced the roman occupation as blasphemous, and believed that g-d had promised to intervene and establish the righteous kingdom