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Masada : from Jewish revolt to modern myth /

A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire. Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children-the last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Magness, Jodi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The fall of Masada
  • The siege of Masada
  • The search for Masada
  • Masada in context
  • Masada and Herod's other building projects
  • Judea before Herod
  • From Herod to the first Jewish revolt against Rome
  • The first Jewish revolt against Rome
  • The rebel occupation of Masada
  • "Masada shall not fall again": Yigael Yadin, the mass suicide, and the Masada myth
  • Epilogue: a tour of Masada.