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Masada was a fortress built by Herod near the Dead Sea, where 900 Jewish Zealots committed suicide rather than surrender to the Romans in 73 AD. Learn about the historical and biblical context, the account of Josephus, and the archaeological remains of Masada.
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After Rome made Herod the Greatking, he came to the mesa in AD 37 to fortify it, erecting an eighteen-foot high wall around its perimeter. ·His made winter palace there, and as was true with all of Herod’s fortresses, had every comfort and convenience he could manage. ·The palace clung to the northern cliffs of Masada like a barnacle. ·Covered stai...
After Rome destroyed Jerusalem’s templein AD 70, a number of Jewish patriots took refuge in Masada. ·Led by Eliezar Ben Yair, they stood firm against Rome for several years. · According to Josephus, on April 15, AD 73, the Romans crested the summit to discover that almost 1000 patriots had chosen to take their own lives rather than surrender their ...
The celebrated archaeologist Yigal Yadin excavated Masada between December 1963 and April 1965. (He wrote a bookabout it.) ·Two expeditions identified a number of Herodian buildings, as well as bits of clothing, children’s games, writing implements, and household utensils from the time of the Jewish revolt. · The patriots left behind a ritual bath,...
Read Psalm 31:1–5. Unless we take Josephus’ account literally, especially the part where Eliezer claims that God’s judgment is the cause for the Jewish defeat under Rome (Wars 7:327, 359), there isn’t a lot of biblical significance to Masada. But the one-inch painted black line across the walls of the ruins illustrates a truth we can apply. The lin...
Nov 4, 2023 · The Roman siege of Jerusalem during the First Jewish Revolt in the first century A.D. forced many of the city’s residents into starvation. For the first time, evidence possibly connected to the famine experienced during this siege has been discovered.
Jan 4, 2022 · About one hundred years after Herod the Great built the “impregnable” fortress of Masada, it became home to a group of Jewish Zealots who hid there during the Roman conquest of Israel. After the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70, Masada was the last Jewish holdout.
Masada is a natural fortress in the eastern Judean Desert on the western shore of the Dead Sea, located some fifty m. S of Khirbet Qumran. The upper plateau of the boat-shaped rock covers twenty acres and rises abruptly, almost perpendicularly 440 yards above its surroundings.
Masada, an ancient fortress atop a high plateau in the Judean Desert, was the site of the last remaining stronghold of Jewish forces during their 1st-century revolt against the Romans. Masada is currently one of the most popular tourist attractions in Israel .
Forensic analysis showed the hair had been shaved from the woman's head with a sharp instrument while she was still alive, a practice prescribed for captured women in the Bible (Deuteronomy 21:10–12) and the 2nd-century BCE Temple Scroll, while the braids indicate that she was married.
