First Jewish–Roman War

First Jewish–Roman War
Pairt o the Jewish–Roman wars
Judaea an Galilee in the first century
Date 66–73 CE Location Judea (Roman province) Result Roman veectory, destruction o Jerusalem an its Temple
Belligerents
Roman Empire	Judean proveesional govrenment Sadducees Pharisees Supportit bi: Adiabene volunteers Peisantry faction Idumeans (69-70)	Radical factions: Zeilots Idumeans (68) Sicarii
Commanders an leaders
Gessius Florus (66) Cestius Gallus (66) Vespasian  (WIA)(67–69) Titus (67–71) Lucilius Bassus (71–72) Lucius Silva (72-73) Herod Agrippa II (WIA)	Ananus ben Ananus † Yosef ben Gurion  Joshua ben Gamla  Eleazar ben Hanania † Yosef ben Matityahu (POW) Simon bar Giora  Jacob ben Sosa (69-70)	Zeilots: Yohanan o Gush Halav (POW) Eleazar ben Simon † Edomites: John Jacob ben Sosa (68) Simon ben Cathlas Phineas ben Clusothus Menahem ben Yehuda  Eleazar ben Ya'ir †
Strenth
Roman gaird 3,000 (ware 66) Sirian Legion 30-36,000 (simmer 66) 5 Legions 60,000–80,000 (67–70) Legio X Fretensis 6,000 truips (70–73)	Judean proveesional govrenment forces: 25,000 (66) 6,000 (67) 500 Adiabene warriors Peasantry: 15,000 (69–70) Idumeans 5,000 (69–70)	6,000 Zeilots unner Yohanan 2,400 Zeilots unner Eleazar 20,000 Idumeans (68 anerly) Sicarii: Several thoosand (67) Several hunder (73)
Casualties an losses
10,000+ sodgers killt	25,000–30,000 killt	10,000–20,000 Zealots an Idumeans killt Thoosands o Sicarii killt
Accordin tae Josephus, 1.1 million non-combatants dee'd in Jerusalem an 100,000 in Galilee; 97,000 ensclaved. Matthew White, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things (Norton, 2012) p.52, estimates the combined daith towl for the First an Third Roman Jewish Wars as bein approximately 350,000

The First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), whiles cried the Great Revolt (Hebrew: המרד הגדול‎‎ ha-Mered Ha-Gadol), or The Jewish War, wis the first o three major rebellions bi the Jews against the Roman Empire, focht in Roman-controlled Judea, resultin in the destruction o Jewish touns, the displacement o its fowk an the appropriation o laund for Roman militar uissage, besides the destruction o the Jewish Temple an polity.