Quote:Didn't stop another group of ingrates railing against the empire they lived under in 1776.
But the Jews did not rebel until 66 and by that time they had been provoked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gessius_Florus
Even allowing for Josephus' customary hyperbole, Florus was not the first.
The conditions of Roman "oppression" did not begin until the reign of Caligula...and even here a smart governor prevented that from exploding. According to the story they devised "jesus" was long dead by then.