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  2. Josephus - Wikipedia

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    Josephus's works are the primary source for the chain of Jewish high priests during the Second Temple period. A few of the Jewish customs named by him include the practice of hanging a linen curtain at the entrance to one's house, [ 42 ] and the Jewish custom to partake of a Sabbath-day 's meal around the sixth-hour of the day (at noon). [ 43 ]

  3. Mary of Bethezuba - Wikipedia

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    Josephus relates that there was a Mary, daughter of Eleazar originally from the village of Bethezuba in the district of Perea, east of the Jordan River, who had previously fled to Jerusalem. Distinguished in family and fortune, her property, treasures and food had been plundered by the Jewish defenders of the city during the siege.

  4. Galilee campaign (67) - Wikipedia

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    Josephus was eventually freed and given a place of honor in the Flavian dynasty, taking the name Flavius, and worked as a court historian with the backing of the Imperial family. In his work The Jewish War , the chief source on the Great Revolt, he provides detailed accounts of the sieges of Gamla and Yodfat , and of internal Jewish politics ...

  5. Yodfat - Wikipedia

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    Its siege and subsequent destruction in 67 CE are described in Josephus' The Jewish War, his chronicle of the First Jewish–Roman War. Led by future emperor Vespasian, three Roman legions—Legio V Macedonica, X Fretensis, and XV Apollinaris—besieged Yodfat, meeting strong Jewish resistance. After 47 days the city fell by treachery, and ...

  6. Masada myth - Wikipedia

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    The Masada myth is the early Zionist retelling of the Siege of Masada, and an Israeli national myth. [1] The Masada myth is a selectively constructed narrative based on Josephus's account, with the Sicarii depicted as heroes, instead of as brigands.

  7. Joseph ben Gurion - Wikipedia

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    The name of Josephus Gurion was adopted by certain Jewish writer Josephus ben Gorion in the Middle Ages, who assembled the Josippon.. Josephus ben Gurion was the inspiration of David Grün, Jewish leader in Mandatory Palestine and later the first Prime Minister of Israel, to change his surname to Ben-Gurion.

  8. Selamin - Wikipedia

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    Selamin (Hebrew: צלמין)(Greek: Σελάμην), also known as Tzalmon, Selame, Salamis / Salamin, [2] Zalmon, [3] and Khurbet es Salâmeh (the Ruin of Salameh), [4] was a Jewish village in Lower Galilee during the Second Temple period, formerly fortified by Josephus, [5] [6] and which was captured by the Roman Imperial army in circa 64 CE.

  9. Joshua ben Gamla - Wikipedia

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    Josephus reports that Joshua was an "intimate friend", who reported a plot to replace Josephus as general of Galilee to Josephus' father. Because his father wrote to him of the plot, Josephus was able to resist it. [11] Joshua attempted peaceably to prevent the Idumeans from entering Jerusalem during the Zealot Temple Siege. After they came ...