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The siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 CE on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel. The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus , [ 3 ] a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans , in whose service he became a historian.
Masada is the main plot location in the fourth season of Preacher. [citation needed] 'XK Masada' is the codename of a continuity-of-command refuge off-planet in "A Colder War". Masada is the main plot location for the novel The Dovekeepers as well as the two-part television drama of the same name.
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Galilee, site of Josephus's governorship, before the First Jewish–Roman War. Josephus was born into one of Jerusalem's elite families. [12] He was the second-born son of Matthias, a Jewish priest. His older full-blooded brother was also, like his father, called Matthias. [13]
The Masada myth is the early Zionist retelling of the Siege of Masada, and an Israeli historical event that takes place in the Judaean dessert. [ 1 ] The Masada myth is a selectively constructed narrative based on Josephus 's account, with the Sicarii depicted as heroes, instead of as brigands.
In 73/74 CE, the Romans breached the walls of Masada and captured the fortress, with Josephus claiming that nearly all of the Jewish defenders had committed mass suicide prior to the entry of the Romans. [224] With the fall of Masada, the First Jewish–Roman War came to an end.
Masada Remains of Roman camp F near Masada. Lucius Flavius Silva Nonius Bassus was a late-1st-century Roman general, governor of the province of Iudaea and consul. [1] Silva was the commander of the army, composed mainly of the Legio X Fretensis, in 72 AD that laid siege to the near-impregnable mountain fortress of Masada, occupied by a group of Jewish rebels dubbed the Sicarii by Flavius himself.
The Pillage of Ein Gedi refers to the Sicarii raid of Ein Gedi during the First Jewish–Roman War. According to Josephus, on Passover, the Sicarii of Masada raided Ein Gedi, a nearby Jewish settlement, and killed 700 of its inhabitants. [1] [2] [3] Josephus' account is the only known record of the pillage and its perpetrators.