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The first Jewish revolt against Rome, under the emperors Vespasian and Titus, in A.D. 66, culminated in the the destruction of Jerusalem in 70. The second Jewish revolt -- known as the Bar Kochba revolt -- began in 132 against the Emperor Hadrian.
Josephus Military History of the Jewish Revolt
Jim Bloom's report on a monograph on Josephus Flavius and Shaye Cohen's Josephus in Galilee and Rome.

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