The Jews before Caligula; AD 40. Owing to the popular revolts against the successors of Herod the Great; Judaea came under the immediate government of Rome. The Procurators plundered the country and treated the people with the utmost barbarity. The Emperor Caligula ordered his image to be set up throughout Judaea and worshipped; and as the Jews were petitioning him to revoke the edict news came that the Imperial statue had been erected in the Temple itself. Illustration for Hutchinson's History of the Nations (Hutchinson; c.1920). Note: Image has been digitally enhanced to facilitate repro.