At the end of the Second Roman-Judaic War (132-136 AD) Hadrian tried to eliminate Judaism. He forbade the Torah and the Jewish calendar, burned the sacred scroll and executed ten rabbinic scholars. He had rebuilt and renamed Jerusalem. Now he forbade the Jews from his capital and renamed the province Syria Palaestina after the Philistines to eliminate any Jewish reference to the area.

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