(May 22, 2016 at 2:38 pm)abaris Wrote: Bullshit. And not in any way covered by historical facts. The jewish establishment didn't count shit, as far as the romans were concerned.
Depends on the time frame you are using, Abs.
Prior to 4 BC the Romans relied on Herod the Great to run the region.
Between 4 BC and 6 AD the region was divided among Herod's children. The Romans did have to suppress a revolt at the beginning of that period.
Between 6 and 41 AD the romans treated Judaea (only) as a praefecture while the other territories maintained the rule of the Tetrarchs as noted above *. In 6, according to Josephus, Augustus granted a petition from the Sanhedrin to remove Archelaus and be a Roman praefecture. The HQ was at Caesarea where the praefect resided. The implication is that there was a fair degree of home rule in Jerusalem itself. This is the period when xtians set their jesus tale.
* Deaths and political machinations beginning around 34 AD started to change this. Philip died c 34 and Herod Antipas was removed in 39 and replaced by Caligula's boyhood friend, Herod Agrippa.
In 41, when Herod Agrippa died and his son Herod Agrippa II was too young to rule so a series of Roman procurators were appointed and the dubious quality of the ethics/greed of these people did much to stir the pot.
Starting in 48 the Romans began to give Herod Agrippa more and more of the territories formerly ruled by his grandfather. By the time of the Great Revolt in 66 he had amassed a kingdom fully as large as Herod the Great's.
