37. Rebuke to Akiva on Messiah's Coming
37. Comment to Akiva, Jerusalem Talmud, Taanit chapter 4:5, p. 68d.The passage makes clear the terrible impact of the Bar Kochba rebellion, including the massive slaughter. See Gerbern S. Oegema, The Anointed and His People: Messianic Expectations from the Maccabees to Bar Kochba, JPS Supplements (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), esp. 28–29 for a discussion of this text.
