Jewish War
66 CE - 70 CE (mar 29, 66 – sep 3, 70)
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1. In 66, the Roman emperor Nero needed money, and ordered his representative in Judaea, Gessius Florus, to confiscate it from the Temple treasure. The governor was not amused when some Jewish jokers passed the hat round for "that poor procurator Florus".note He demanded their punishment, but when his policemen could not find the mockers, he had some passersby arrested and crucified.
2.The reason why this incident led to war, was the religious tension between the Jewish populace and the Roman government.
The deepest cause of the war was the impoverishment of the Jewish peasantry. Sixty years of Roman taxation had meant only one thing: the Jews had to pay money, which was spent in Italy and on the border. Judaea had become substantially poorer and many peasants had been forced first to mortgage and then to sell their land.
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