How were the Syrians and Romans alike in way they dealt with Jewish rebellion?

Both the Syrians and the Romans used military force to suppress Jewish rebellions. The Syrians, under the Seleucid dynasty, fought a series of wars against the Maccabees, a Jewish rebel group, in the 2nd century BCE. The Romans, under the Flavian dynasty, destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem and defeated the Bar Kokhba revolt in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE.

In both cases, the military campaigns were accompanied by massacres and deportations of Jewish people. The Syrians also attempted to suppress Jewish religious practices, while the Romans imposed heavy taxes on Jews and restricted their religious rights.

Despite these similarities, there were also some key differences in the way that the Syrians and Romans dealt with Jewish rebellion. The Syrians were more tolerant of Jewish religious practices than the Romans, and they did not attempt to destroy the Second Temple. The Romans, on the other hand, were more determined to crush Jewish resistance and to impose their own culture and religion on the Jewish people.

Ultimately, the Roman conquest of Judea had a more lasting impact on Jewish history than the Syrian occupation. The destruction of the Second Temple and the dispersal of the Jewish people led to the development of Rabbinic Judaism and the formation of the Jewish diaspora.