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The Roman Siege of Masada May Have Lasted Weeks, Not YearsMasada, which overlooks the Dead Sea, is one of Israel’s most famous tourist attractions.However, while the fortress was ...
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The Siege of Masada; What Really Happened?Masada is one of the most famous archaeological sites in Israel. It is best known from a dramatic episode described by Josephus in his account The Jewish War when the Judean rebels in the First ...
They expected a battle but ... of the state of Israel to be swept away by the rhetoric which Josephus derived from the classical tradition: "Live free or die!"' The Masada myth does not begin ...
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