A peer-reviewed legal-historical study arguing that a general Hadrianic edict against circumcision, read by Rabello as continuous with a broader Roman legal campaign against genital mutilation on Hellenistic cultural grounds, preceded the Bar Kokhba revolt and was a genuine provocation behind it, against readings that treat the ban as a punitive measure imposed only after the revolt had already begun.
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Rabello was a professor of Roman and comparative law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem specializing in Roman legislation toward Jews, and this Israel Law Review article is the standard citation, on both sides of later scholarship, for the pre-revolt-provocation reading of the circumcision ban, the source this atlas draws that side of the causation debate from. Citation
AuthorAlfredo Mordechai Rabello
PublisherIsrael Law Review, vol. 29, p. 176 onward
Publication Year1995
Source Typepeer-reviewed article
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This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
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