Publisher's Synopsis
This book is concerned with a relatively unknown period in Jewish history - The rebellion by the Jews of Israel against the Byzantine Empire that started in 614 C.E..The book is based on Jewish and Christian sources and even some Muslim sources from the period of the rebellion. It also uses recent archaeological evidence.The book discusses the background of the rebellion. It covers the cooperation between the Jews of Israel with the Persian armies and the Persian-Jewish troops within these armies, who had been fighting the Byzantines at the same time and earlier. It focuses on the subsequent Jewish rule of Jerusalem (614-617 C.E.). It also discusses the aftermath of the rebellion and examines possible reasons for the lack of its coverage in modern Jewish writings
