The Zealots were a revolutionary party opposed to Roman rule, one of those parties that, according to Josephus inspired the fanatical stand in Jerusalem that led to its destruction in the year 70 CE.[10] Luke identifies Simon, a disciple, as a "zealot", which might mean a member of the Zealot party or a zealous person.[10] The notion that Jesus himself was a Zealot does not do justice to the earliest Synoptic material describing him.[11] Alternatively, according to Dale Martin of Yale [12] and supported by Bart Ehrman,[13] as well as an essay by James Still,[14] Jesus has been cast in a Zealot/violent apocalyptic light.