This thesis attempts to determine the process of genocide in the ancient world byexamining ancient sources concerning Roman-Jewish relations from the 1st century AD until the
end of the Bar Kokhba revolt in AD 136. In this thesis, I test Gregory Stanton’s “Ten Stages of
Genocide” against historical evidence. In the first chapter, I show which of Stanton’s stages
appear in the ancient sources. The second chapter contains the stages from Stanton’s model that
do not occur. The third chapter has stages that I added to Stanton’s model that are necessary to
add to complete the genocidal process’ overview. By seeing what stages appear, which ones do
not, and the ones I added, we can see how the Roman process of genocide differs from that of the
modern world.
