Bezalel Bar-Kochva (Hebrew: בצלאל בר-כוכבא; born January 1, 1941) is a professor emeritus in the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University.
Bar-Kochva's research focuses on Judea, the Land of Israel, diaspora Jews, and the Seleucid Empire in that era.
[2] He received religious schooling as a child in yeshivas, including extensive study of the Talmud.
He completed a bachelor's degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the department of Jewish History and the Bible.
Bar-Kochva has written five books and about eighty academic journal articles, generally focusing on Second Temple period Judaism, the Hellenistic World, and how they intersected.