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BARCOCHEBAS , See also:

BAR-COCHAB, or BAR KOKBA (" son of a See also:star "), the name given in See also:Christian See also:sources to one See also:Simeon, the See also:leader in the Jewish revolt against See also:Rome in the See also:time of See also:Hadrian (A.D. 132–135). The name does not appear in the See also:Roman historians. In Rabbinic sources he is called Bar (See also:Ben) Coziba, " son of deceit," which perhaps reflects the later See also:verdict of condemnation recorded after his failure (See also:root me "to be false"). Cochab is, therefore, the name either of his See also:father or of his See also:home. But it is recorded that the See also:Rabbi `Agiba (q.v.), who recognized him as See also:Messiah, applied Num. See also:xxiv. 17 to him, See also:reading not Cochab (" a star "), but Cosiba (" goes forth from See also:Jacob "); thus Bar-cochab is a Messianic See also:title of the " See also:man of Cozeba " (cf. Chron. iv. 22) whose See also:original name was recalled by later Rabbis with sinister intention. At first the See also:Romans paid little See also:attention to the insurgents, who were able to strike coins in the name of Simeon, See also:prince of See also:Israel, and Eleazar the See also:priest, and to persecute the Christians, who refused to join the revolt. But troops were collected and the various fortresses occupied by the See also:Jews were successively reduced. The end came with the fall of Beth-thar (Bethar).

Extraordinary stories were told of the prowess of Barcochebas and of the ordeals to which he subjected his soldiers in the way of training. See See also:

Eusebius H.E. iv. 6; Dio See also:Cassius xix. 12-14; Scharer, Gesch. d. Volkes, 3rd ed. i. 682 ff. ; See also:Derenbourg, Hist. de la Palest. 423 if. (distinguishes Barcochebas from Simeon) ; Schlattler, Gesch. Israels, 2nd ed. 303 ff.; articles JEws and See also:PALESTINE, See also:History; alSO See also:art. s.v. " Bar Kokba " in Jewish Encyc.

(S. Krauss).

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