Directory of Masada Resources

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This category is for sites or pages related to the events ending the siege of Masada in the Jewish Wars of 68-74 A.D. The historian Flavius Josephus tells how the besieged Jews agreed upon, and implemented, a mass suicide pact. He was obviously not an eyewitness; modern historians and archaeologists have varying ideas about how accurate his account was.

Resources in This Category

• Josephus Describes Mass Suicide at Masada

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/josephusmasada.html
  Relevant excerpt from the writings of Josephus.

• Masada

  http://mosaic.lk.net/g-masada.html
  Article on historical events at Masada as well as detailing archaeological finds there by historical period.

• Masada: Desert Fortress Overlooking the Dead Sea

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Archaeology/Masada1.html
  Article on the suicides and archaeological excavations, also featuring a photograph and map of the area. From the Jewish Virtual Library.

• Masada: the Credibility of Josephus

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/portrait/masada.html
  Did hundreds of Jews commit suicide at Masada?

 

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