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The political leader of the second Jewish revolt against Rome (a.d. &#x;35). From autograph letters written by him to various officers under his command and found in , , and in caves of the wadies Murabba&#x;&#x;t, Seiyâl, and Ḫabra in Jordan and Israel (see dead sea scrolls), it is certain that his name was Simon ben Kosibah (&#x;m&#x;wn bn kwsbh, attested in a Greek letter as ΣιμωνΧωσιβα).

In rabbinical writings (e.g., Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin, , 2, folio 93b) his name is given as bar (or ben ) Koziba, "son of the lie." This form is probably the result of a wordplay on his name (Hebrew kzb, "to lie"), which originated with the Jews who either did not approve of his uprising or ironically reflected later on its ill-fated outcome.

Rabbi akiba ben joseph, who approved of the revolt, regarded him as a messiah (Jerusalem Talmud, Ta&#x;anith d) and applied to