Ban on Circumcision

Historia Augusta, Hadrian 14.2

Late 4th Century

At this time also the Jews began war, because they were forbidden to practice circumcision.

Translated by David Magie.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.

The Historia Augusta, written in the late fourth century CE, is a collection of biographies of Roman emperors and other prominent figures attributed to six authors, although its actual authorship is debated. The work is generally agreed to contain falsifications and interpolations. Its biography of Hadrian attributes the cause of the Bar Kokhba revolt to a ban on circumcision.

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