Judaism had become totally perverted from any pretense of its godly side

According to Josephus, Bellum Judaicum; in VII.v, he says that, along with Simon and John, Titus brought to Rome 700 Jews, "whom he had selected out of the rest as being eminently tall and handsome of body", and, according to VI.ix, Titus captured 97,000 Jews; another 1,100,000 died or were executed during the siege. Josephus claims that of the 1,100,000 people killed during the siege, a sizeable portion of these were at Jewish hands and due to illnesses brought about by hunger. "A pestilential destruction upon them, and soon afterward such a famine, as destroyed them more suddenly." Others fled to areas around the Mediterranean. Jewish gangs fought one another “driving stakes up their victim’s rectums to force them to reveal their stock of grain.” The Jewish Talmud claims that 4 billion jews were killed by Romans.

The Jewish Encyclopedia article on the Hebrew Alphabet states: "Not until the revolts against Nero and against Hadrian did the Jews return to the use of the old Hebrew script on their coins, which they did from motives similar to those which had governed them two or three centuries previously; both times, it is true, only for a brief period." Titus reportedly refused to accept a wreath of victory, claiming that he had "lent his arms to God". Before Vespasian's departure, the Pharisaic sage and Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai obtained his permission to establish a Judaic school at Yavne. Zakkai was smuggled away from Jerusalem in a coffin by his students. Later this school became a major center of Talmudic study.

The destruction of Jerusalem by Titus was followed by a much more dangerous rising of the Judaeans, who for a time seemed "in imminent danger of falling to pieces. There now appeared a man [Jochanan, the son of Zakkai] , who seemed made to restore some strength to the nation." During the siege of Jerusalem he went over to the Romans, and — “Titus received the fugitive in a friendly manner. . . . Jochanan modestly requested that he might be permitted to establish a school at Jamnia [near Joppa.] . . . Titus had nothing to urge against the harmless wish of Jochanan, for he could not foresee that by this unimportant concession he was enabling Judaism ... to outlive Rome by thousands of years." Thus was the Jewish base of operations transferred by the unsuspecting Titus. At Jamnia, Jochanan "formed a sort of Synhedrion of which he was at once recognized as the President," and the Jews were again organized for war, their greatest effort against Rome.

The Roman colony, Aelia Capitolina, was built over the ruins of Jerusalem, over half a century later by Emperor Hadrian. The city was complete with forums, baths and temples. After the Jewish Revolt of 132-135, Jews were forbidden to enter the area except for the Tisha B’Av observance commemorating the destruction. With this one exception Jews, were banned from living there or making pilgrimages. The Roman Tenth Legion was assigned to guard the area, preventing Jews from entering at any other time. Constantine began building churches and shrines at alleged sacred spots all about the region, mostly found by his mother, Helena. Called Jerusalem again, it once again began to have Jewish residents. Palestine was now the holy land of the Christian religion. Not all the Jews left Palestine. With permission of the Romans, the Sanhedrin moved over to the coastal city of Jamnia. They began to develop the Judaic religion and writing down the Talmud.