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If you don’t establish the Imperial Cult or deemphasize it after Augustus, do the later Jewish rebellions still happen and on the same scale? Would ethnic religious conflict between Greeks and Jews still occur and lead to the same destruction? Would Roman authorities find Jews much less problematic and rebellious if Republican era notions of religion and divinity were continued to a much greater extent and there was no culture of worshipping Rome or the emperor in the provinces?