The Vilification of the Zealots

The Zealots
Why was the Judean freedom movement vilified in rabbinic literature and in the writings of Josephus?

Ahead of  Tisha b’Av – Israel’s national day of mourning for the destruction of the Jewish people’s national framework nearly 2,000 years ago – Yehuda HaKohen shares a 2015 class he taught on how the Judean freedom movement (the Zealots) came to be vilified by historians and even many rabbis following its crushing defeat at the hands of the Roman empire.

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