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  2. Masada - Wikipedia

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    Masada (Hebrew: מְצָדָה məṣādā, 'fortress'; Arabic: جبل مسعدة) [1] is an ancient fortification in southern Israel, situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert , overlooking the Dead Sea 20 km (12 miles) east of Arad .

  3. Siege of Masada - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. List of Hebrew Bible manuscripts - Wikipedia

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    They were written before 70 CE. 14 scroll manuscripts were discovered in Masada in 1963–1965. [7] The largest organized collection of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts in the world is housed in the Russian National Library ("Second Firkovitch Collection") in Saint Petersburg. [4]

  5. 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.

  6. 1842 in archaeology - Wikipedia

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    Site of Masada discovered. Karl Richard Lepsius begins an expedition to Egypt and the Sudan commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Excavations

  7. Sicarii - Wikipedia

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    The Romans eventually took the fortress and, according to Josephus, found that most of its defenders had died by suicide rather than surrender. [6] In Josephus' The Jewish War (vii), after the fall of the Temple in AD 70, the sicarii became the dominant revolutionary Hebrew faction, scattered abroad.

  8. Lucius Flavius Silva - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Yigael Yadin - Wikipedia

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    His father had bought three of the seven scrolls discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin goat-herd, and he had bought the other four in New York in 1954. [ 8 ] As an archeologist, he excavated some of the most important sites in the region, including the Qumran Caves , Masada , Hazor , Tel Megiddo and caves in the Judean Desert where artifacts from the ...