John of Gischala

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John of Gischala
Political party
Simon Bar Giora
  • Eleazar ben Simon
  • Titus

    • John of Gischala (

    first Jewish revolt
    against the Romans.

    History

    During the Jewish war with Rome, John of Gischala (

    Gush Halav) and Gabara,[1] including the support of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem.[2]

    As part of the Roman campaign to put down the revolt in Judea,

    Sabbath, "not so much out of regard to the seventh day as to his own preservation." John fled to Jerusalem that night, and "Titus was greatly displeased that he had not been able to bring this John, who had deluded him, to punishment."[3]

    When John entered Jerusalem, it was in an uproar, and the people clamoured for news.

    John...went about among all the people, and persuaded them to go to war, by the hopes he gave them. He affirmed that the affairs of the Romans were in a weak condition, and extolled his own power. He also jested upon the ignorance of the unskillful, as if those Romans, although they should take to themselves wings, could never fly over the wall of Jerusalem, who found such great difficulties in taking the villages of Galilee, and had broken their engines of war against their walls. These harangues of John's corrupted a great part of the young men, and puffed them up for the war.[3]

    Soon after his arrival in Jerusalem, he played an instrumental part in the outcome of the

    Siege of Jerusalem. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, taken to Rome and paraded through the streets in chains.[5][6]

    Legacy

    He was the subject of the Italian drama Giovanni di Giscala (1754) by Alfonso Varano. The work inspired the Italian opera Giovanni di Giscala (1855) by Giovanni Gaetano Rossi and Alfonso Cavagnar.[7]

    References

    1. ^ a large village in Galilee during the 1st century CE., located to the north of Nazareth. In antiquity, the town was called Garaba, but in Josephus' historical works of antiquity, the town is mentioned by its Greek corruption, Gabara (see: Joseph Klausner, Qobetz, Journal of the Jewish Palestinian Exploration Society, 3 [1934], pp. 261–263 [Hebrew]; Uriel Rappaport, John of Gischala, from the mountains of Galilee to the walls of Jerusalem, 2013, p. 44 [note 2]; Ze'ev Safrai, The Galilee in the time of the Mishna and Talmud, 2nd edition, Jerusalem 1985, pp. 59–62 [Hebrew]).
    2. doi:10.4159/DLCL.josephus-life.1926. Retrieved 31 May 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)  – via digital Loeb Classical Library
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    3. ^ a b Josephus. "Book IV". The Jewish War.
    4. ^ Josephus. "Book V". The Jewish War.
    5. ^ Josephus. "Book VII". The Jewish War.
    6. ^ The Other Side of the Coin
    7. ^ Gabriele Boccaccini, Portraits of Middle Judaism in Scholarship and Arts (Turin: Zamorani, 1992)

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