“The history of the Jewish land is as little the history of the Jewish people as the history of the States of the Church is that of the Catholics; it is just as requisite to separate the two as to consider them together.”

—  Theodor Mommsen

Judaea and the Jews
The Provinces of the Roman Empire, From Caesar to Diocletian 1854-6

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