In the beginning of the Common Era, a new anti-Roman group called the Zealots arose among the Jews. For more than six decades these anti-Roman rebels were active. As a result, the Great Revolt was instigated. The rebels believed that any means necessary were justified to attain political and religious liberty. The leadership of emperor Caligula, the Jews' anti-Roman feelings were seriously challenged. He declared himself to be a goddess and demanded his statue to be set up at every temple in the Roman Empire. The Jews, alone in the empire, refused the order. They would not defile God's Temple with a statue of pagan Rome's newest goddess by breaking one of the ten commandments. In the year 66, Florus, the last Roman minister, stole vast quantities
