Revolutionary hopes coupled with actions—that’s what the zealots were about. And zealots weren’t just one group in the first century. They were a number of different uprisings throughout the first century that tried to throw off the oppression of Rome. Reading the first-century Jewish historian Josephus, we can see some of these revolutionary movements talked about. Certainly in AD 66, the Jewish war against Rome that happens around Jerusalem is kind of a culmination of these various revolutionary