Masada

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216770
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis Masada by : Jodi Magness

Download or read book Masada written by Jodi Magness and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire, as revealed by the archaeology of its famous site Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children—the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple—reportedly took their own lives rather than surrender to the Roman army. This dramatic event, which took place on top of Masada, a barren and windswept mountain overlooking the Dead Sea, spawned a powerful story of Jewish resistance that came to symbolize the embattled modern State of Israel. Incorporating the latest findings, Jodi Magness, an archaeologist who has excavated at Masada, explains what happened there—and what it has come to mean since. Featuring numerous illustrations, this is an engaging exploration of an ancient story that continues to grip the imagination today.

Masada. Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand. (Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Pearlman.).

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Book Synopsis Masada. Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand. (Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Pearlman.). by : Yigael YADIN

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Masada Myth

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299148335
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Book Synopsis Masada Myth by : Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Download or read book Masada Myth written by Nachman Ben-Yehuda and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 73 A.D., legend has it, 960 Jewish rebels under siege in the ancient desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to a Roman legion. Recorded in only one historical source, the story of Masada was obscure for centuries. In The Masada Myth, Israeli sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda tracks the process by which Masada became an ideological symbol for the State of Israel, the dramatic subject of movies and miniseries, a shrine venerated by generations of Zionists and Israeli soldiers, and the most profitable tourist attraction in modern Israel. Ben-Yehuda describes how, after nearly 1800 years, the long, complex, and unsubstantiated narrative of Josephus Flavius was edited and augmented in the twentieth century to form a simple and powerful myth of heroism. He looks at the ways this new mythical narrative of Masada was created, promoted, and maintained by pre-state Jewish underground organizations, the Israeli army, archaeological teams, mass media, youth movements, textbooks, the tourist industry, and the arts. He discusses the various organizations and movements that created “the Masada experience” (usually a ritual trek through the Judean desert followed by a climb to the fortress and a dramatic reading of the Masada story), and how it changed over decades from a Zionist pilgrimage to a tourist destination. Placing the story in a larger historical, sociological, and psychological context, Ben-Yehuda draws upon theories of collective memory and mythmaking to analyze Masada’s crucial role in the nation-building process of modern Israel and the formation of a new Jewish identity. An expert on deviance and social control, Ben-Yehuda looks in particular at how and why a military failure and an enigmatic, troubling case of mass suicide (in conflict with Judaism’s teachings) were reconstructed and fabricated as a heroic tale.

The Antagonists

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Antagonists by : Ernest K Gann

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Masada

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Publisher : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780802851680
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Masada by : Gloria D. Miklowitz

Download or read book Masada written by Gloria D. Miklowitz and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 72 C.E., after a four-year war between Rome and Judea, only one fortress remains to be taken: Masada, high above the Dead Sea in what is now Israel. Two years later, the commander of the famous Roman Tenth Legion, Flavius Silva, marches toward Masada to capture or kill the 960 Jewish zealots who hold it. In this eloquent and powerful novel, we meet 17-year-old Simon ben Eleazar, son of the Jewish leader of Masada. Apprenticed too Masada s only physician, Simon learns to help victims of the enemy s onslaught as he struggles with his love for Deborah, the intended of his best friend, and with the painful decision he must ultimately make.

Back to Masada

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Publisher : Biblical Archaeology Society
ISBN 13 : 9789652210753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Back to Masada by : Amnon Ben-Tor

Download or read book Back to Masada written by Amnon Ben-Tor and published by Biblical Archaeology Society. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masada in the Hasmonean period -- Masada in the Herodian period -- Building materials -- Ornamentation -- Construction at the time of the procurators and the Roman garrison -- Construction during the priod of the rebels -- The eastern gate -- Building 8 (the commandant's residence?) -- The storerooms -- The large bathhouse -- The approach to the northern palace -- The northern palace -- The water supply system -- The synagogue -- The casemate wall -- Building 9 (hostel?) -- Building 10 : the western palace -- The small palaces -- The layout of the palaces -- The phases of construction of Herodian Masada -- Pottery Written finds -- Coins -- Other finds -- The battle for Masada -- Masada in the Byzantine period -- Archaeology and the Masada myth.

Masada

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Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781424142538
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Masada by : Jon Schiller

Download or read book Masada written by Jon Schiller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dani Sharon, an Israeli business entrepreneur, is recruited by his governments clandestine LEKEM to mastermind acquiring the components and technology to build a nuclear arsenal. Danis flamboyant character and tactical brilliance make him a natural for the assignment. His only stipulation in accepting the task is that he be allowed to skim a profit off all his transactions to finance his movie ventures. Dani obtains the necessary material and information through extralegal and clandestine methods. He cuts numerous deals with European, South African, and American companies. What he cant buy, he steals in daring capers monitored by the superpowers. Within a short time Israel explodes its first atom bomb. However, soon after this success, Israeli leaders realize radioactive fallout would endanger their own population if the atom bomb were used against hostile Arab neighbors. They conclude a neutron bomb is necessary to protect the Israelis from this danger. Using a movie production company as a cover, Dani begins acquiring the technology for such a bomb and the ballistic missile to deliver it.

Masada

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Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526728982
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Masada by : Phil Carradice

Download or read book Masada written by Phil Carradice and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic history behind one of the great landmarks of ancient Israel. In the spring of 73 AD, the rock fortress of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea was the site of an event that was breathtaking in its courage and self-sacrifice. Here the last of the Jewish Zealots who, for nearly eight years, had waged war against the Roman occupiers of their country made their last stand. The Zealots on Masada had withstood a two-year siege but with Roman victory finally assured, they were faced by two options: capture or death. They chose the latter, and when the Roman legions forced their way into the hill fort the following morning they were met only with utter silence by row upon row of bodies. Rather than fall into enemy hands the 960 men, women, and children who had defended the fortress so heroically had committed suicide. The story of the siege and eventual capture of Masada is unique, not just in Israeli legend but in the history of the world. It is a story of bravery that even the Roman legionaries, well used to death and brutality, could see and appreciate. It was a massacre but a massacre with a difference: carried out by the victims themselves. This book tells the story, also covering the excavation of the remote hilltop site in the twentieth century.

Jerusalem's Traitor

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458777855
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Book Synopsis Jerusalem's Traitor by : Desmond Seward

Download or read book Jerusalem's Traitor written by Desmond Seward and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Jews revolted against Rome in 66 CE, Josephus, a Jerusalem aristocrat, was made a general in his nation’s army. Captured by the Romans, he saved his skin by finding favor with the emperor Vespasian. He then served as an adviser to the Roman legions, running a network of spies inside Jerusalem, in the belief that the Jews’ only hope of survival lay in surrender to Rome.As a Jewish eyewitness who was given access to Vespasian’s campaign notebooks, Josephus is our only source of information for the war of extermination that ended in the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple, and the amazing times in which he lived. He is of vital importance for anyone interested in the Middle East, Jewish history, and the early history of Christianity.

Sacrificing Truth

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Publisher : Humanities Press International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Sacrificing Truth by : Nachman Ben-Yehuda

Download or read book Sacrificing Truth written by Nachman Ben-Yehuda and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Masada

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Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781590780633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Masada written by and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of Masada, from the building of Herod's Temple through its use by Zealots as a refuge from the Romans to its rediscovery in the mid-20th century.

The Masada Stones

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595527566
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Book Synopsis The Masada Stones by : E. W. Bonadio

Download or read book The Masada Stones written by E. W. Bonadio and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For his entire life, professor Aaron Skorsky has searched for the truth. Finding it near the heights of Masada, he learns that the account of a mass suicide by 1000 Hebrew rebels may have been falsely reported. After 2000 years, an ancient alchemy used by the Romans against the rebel zealots lays unclaimed. Finding it is only half the problem and soon Skorsky finds that he must choose between revealing a threat to mankind or saving the life of someone dear to him. Caught in the middle of an Israeli plot and desperate measures by Arab terrorists who want to expose them, Skorsky has little choice but to bend to the higher power.

The Dovekeepers

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451617496
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dovekeepers by : Alice Hoffman

Download or read book The Dovekeepers written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious and mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly). Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman’s novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. Yael’s mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Revka, a village baker’s wife, watched the murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers; she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Aziza is a warrior’s daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and expert marksman who finds passion with a fellow soldier. Shirah, born in Alexandria, is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power. The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets—about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love.

Masada and the World of the New Testament

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Publisher : Friends of the Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Masada and the World of the New Testament by : John Franklin Hall

Download or read book Masada and the World of the New Testament written by John Franklin Hall and published by Friends of the Library. This book was released on 1997 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artifacts excavated from the ruins of Masada yield fascinating insights into the world of the New Testament and the times when King Herod, Pilate, Jesus, Peter, and Paul lived. This book invites you to visit Herod's palaces, walk the robber-infested road taken by the good Samaritan, and see lamps that may have been like those carried by the ten virgins and sandals that made footprints on the shores of Galilee or the deserts of Judea. Every item from Masada suggests something about the setting in which Christianity arose. These essays help us better understand the people, politics, and material culture of the world of the New Testament.

The Masada Solution

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Publisher : Createspace Indie Pub Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781475218152
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (181 download)

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Book Synopsis The Masada Solution by : Jeffrey M. Fishman

Download or read book The Masada Solution written by Jeffrey M. Fishman and published by Createspace Indie Pub Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a story of good versus evil, right versus wrong, honor versus immorality. Go with Jake Zimmer on this adventure to find peace in the world and his peace within. As militant Muslims wreak havoc on Israel and much of the civilized world, Jake yearns for peace. But when a terrorist's bomb affects him personally, he knows he can no longer accept the continuing slaughter of innocent people and the inevitability that Israel will cease to exist. He commits to doing whatever it takes to find a solution, even if he must reject the values that have guided his life and ignore the rules of diplomacy and covenants that constrain nations. Jake and a courageous Israeli, who also accepts that there are times when the ends do justify the means, devise a scheme to finally end the conflict between the Israelis and their hostile Arab neighbors. But, to free Israel to act on her own behalf, they must refute the Arab propaganda machine that foments international pressure and hostility against Israel.They convince the President of the United States to support and execute their ingenious and resourceful peace plan and enlist him to sell it to the world. During the lengthy and complicated implementation, those opposed wreak havoc and cause massive casualties worldwide. Their attacks are met with vengeance by a new Israeli Prime Minister, who, refusing to accept any appearance of weakness or defeat, vows to answer every evil act. Like former Prime Minister Golda Meir, he believes the killing of Israelis must come at a high price. So, when key officials are assassinated, a rocket installation is destroyed. When a synagogue is bombed, a mosque is attacked. Jake is astonished to find that, despite having a host of reasons to abandon the plan, the President remains steadfast, knowing the future survival of the Jewish state is held in the balance. Alliances are formed and destroyed, treachery and deceit rule as governments fail while the battles escalate. The Masada Solution takes you along as Jake and his allies struggle to achieve peace and security. The fast pace of this story will keep you turning pages to keep up with the action, the personal and political maneuvering, the adventure and the intrigue, until the unexpected ending.

LIFE

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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-12-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

The Voices of Masada

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Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006233374
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (333 download)

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Book Synopsis The Voices of Masada by : David Kossoff

Download or read book The Voices of Masada written by David Kossoff and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recreation of the story of the Jewish revolt against the Romans at Masada in the year 70 A.D.