• Bezalel Bar-Kochva (born January 1, 1941) is a professor emeritus in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. He is a historian of the...
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  • according to the Hasmoneans and from the Maccabean point of view. Bezalel Bar-Kochva praises it as among the better military historiography of the period...
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    ISBN 0-691-08850-0. Bar-Kochva 1989, p. 8–14 Bar-Kochva 1989, p. 16–19 Bar-Kochva 1989, p. 30–36 Bar-Kochva 1989, p. 40–43 Bar-Kochva 1989, p. 68–75 Bar-Kochva 1989...
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    58-60,--pp. 711-714 Of the Indian Philosophers. J. W. McCrindle. Bezalel Bar-Kochva 2010, p. 157: "He does not respond to the implied claim of Greek primacy...
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    attendees, to avenge the loss of his brother John. Israeli historian Bezalel Bar-Kochva believes that the Judeans would have had equal numbers to the Seleucids...
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  • mention a struggle at Carnaim and include many similar locations. Bezalel Bar-Kochva additionally argues that both 2 Maccabees Chapter 8 and 10 are also...
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  • It is contested by scholars whether there is one Timothy or two. Bezalel Bar-Kochva argues there is just a single Timothy; Jonathan Goldstein argues that...
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    to him as a general (strategos) rather than a commander. Historian Bezalel Bar-Kochva believes that Josephus misread 1 Maccabees on the matter of Seron's...
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    who saw the Hasmoneans as usurpers, such as the Essenes. Historian Bezalel Bar-Kochva considers it unlikely that the author of the book was an eyewitness...
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  • soldiers in this battle; Josephus writes a mere 2,000. Historian Bezalel Bar-Kochva believes that these estimates for the size of the Judean army are...
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