>Gwen Ackerman, in an article published by Bloomberg.com, is reporting that Israeli archaeologists have found a large cache of coins from the period of the Jewish revolt against the Romans almost 2,000 years ago. The following is an excerpt from the article:

Some 120 gold, silver and bronze coins were found hidden in a cave outside Jerusalem believed to have been used by Jewish fighters loyal to the rebel Shimon Bar-Kokhba, who opposed Roman rule in the biblical kingdom of Judea from A.D. 132 to 135.

“This discovery verifies the assumption that the refugees of the revolt fled to caves in the center of a populated area in addition to the caves found in more isolated areas of the Judean desert,” Associate Professor Amos Frumkin said today in an e- mailed statement from the university.

The find was in the area of the ancient city of Betar, where Bar-Kokhba is reputed to have had his last stand, and was part of wider cave research, the university said. The site lies outside Jerusalem in the West Bank, near the Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit.

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Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Archaeology, Amos Frumkin, Ancient Coins, Bar-Kokhba Revolt

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