Jewish Interconnectivity and Diasporic Unrest under Trajan

What is it about?

The goal of this article is to ask how the concept of "Jewish interconnectivity" affected the historical narration of Jewish rebellions in the diaspora under the Roman Empire. I build upon Simcha Gross's coinage of "Jewish interconnectivity" in his examination of how Roman writers and Jewish rebels both thought about how Jews living east of the Euphrates might intervene in the Jewish-Roman Wars. I explore how the Jewish diaspora revolts of 116–117 CE reveal how ancient, medieval, and modern writers make assumptions about the degree to which ancient Jews in the diaspora were interconnected with one another.

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