ReligionForBreakfast | The Siege of Masada: What Really Happened? @ReligionForBreakfast | Uploaded August 2018 | Updated October 2024, 4 days ago.
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 Jewish Revolt made an epic last stand against the Tenth Roman Legion. But what really happened at Masada? And does the archaeological record support Josephus' account?

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Sources:

Josephus' account: pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/josephusmasada.html

Jodi Magness, Archaeology of the Holy Land.

Gwyn Davies, “Under Siege: The Roman Field Works at Masada,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 362 (May 2011), 65-83

For more on the skeletons found at Masada, see: jamestabor.com/masada-mysteries-what-do-we-know-about-the-bones


Photo Credits:

IDF Soldiers: bobointexas.blogspot.com/2011/06/masada-and-dead-sea.html

Masada at night, Avinoam Michaeli commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_10447_Masada_Sound_and_Light_show.jpg

Credit: Andrew Shiva
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_of_Masada_(Israel)_06.jpg

Ben-Yair Ostracon: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masada,_Ben_Yair%27s_ostracon.jpg

Siege Ramp: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IL-masada-rampe.jpg
Siege tower: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helepolis#/media/File:Helepolis.png

Northern palace complex: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Israel-2013-Masada-Aerial_01.JPG
Palace terraces: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PikiWiki_Israel_10475_Herod_palace_at_Masada.jpg