Im just curious when did the Romans eventually stop ruling Israel? and why did they rule Israel?

The Romans ruled Israel from 63 BC to 313 AD. Why? Because Rome was an empire and made Israel a Roman province.


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Im just curious when did the Romans eventually stop ruling Israel? and why did they rule Israel?
The years of Roman rule are about 63 BCE-313 CE


(Before Common Era , Common Era).





When the Romans replaced the Seleucids as the great power in the region, they granted the Hasmonean king, Hyrcanus II, limited authority under the Roman governor of Damascus. The Jews were hostile to the new regime, and the following years witnessed frequent insurrections. A last attempt to restore the former glory of the Hasmonean dynasty was made by Mattathias Antigonus, whose defeat and death brought Hasmonean rule to an end (40 BCE), and the Land became a province of the Roman Empire.





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Im just curious when did the Romans eventually stop ruling Israel? and why did they rule Israel?
The Romans drove most of the Jews out of Judea after the Bar Kokhba revolt that lasted three years (132-135); after that, emperor Hadrian changed the name of the province to "Palaestina". When the Roman empire split into Western and Eastern empires, Palestina became a part of the Eastern empire, which itself eventually morphed into Byzantium. In 638, Byzantium lost Palestina to Muslims...





As to why Romans ruled Judea, that's another complicated story. After Alexander's conquests and the break-up of his empire, Judea became a part of the Ptolemaic empire in 305 BC, then, in 198 BC, was taken over by Seleucids. In 141 BC, the Maccabees established the Hasmonean state in Israel, but they lacked the military power to do it alone, so they allied themselves with Rome. Since then, Rome was actively involved in happenings in Judea...