Those great angry walls. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved, Looking down from the Masada plateau to a tower built below the fortress. They never were that great. "[7] According to William Whiston, translator of Josephus,[7] two women, who survived the suicide by hiding inside a cistern along with five children, repeated Eleazar ben Ya'ir's exhortations to his followers, prior to the mass suicide, verbatim to the Romans: "Since we long ago resolved never to be servants to the Romans, nor to any other than to God Himself, Who alone is the true and just Lord of mankind, the time is now come that obliges us to make that resolution true in practice ... We were the very first that revolted, and we are the last to fight against them; and I cannot but esteem it as a favor that God has granted us, that it is still in our power to die bravely, and in a state of freedom.".
While wild animals, scavengers, and weather could explain why more intact bodies have not been found, thus far there have been no signs of any other bodies. Yadin based his interpretation on the remains of armor found nearby, as Richard Monastersky wrote in 2002. Or were they taken into captivity? Fifteen towers lined the eastern and northern stretches of the circumvallation wall, while eight camps laid down around the wall served as bases and garrison points for the troops. For a deeper probe into how the Romans waged both literal and psychological warfare on the besieged rebels, read the full article “The Masada Siege—From the Roman Viewpoint” by Gwyn Davies in the July/August 2014 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. If so, that would contradict the account that the defenders of Masada were willingly killed by their own people to avoid capture by the Romans. Re: suicide of the Jews at Masada. And the existence of the ostraca does not shine any light on their purpose. I am a Ugandan scientist who is very keen on history. Herod was as wicked as Ahab in his day. I recall reading about Josephus sevral years ago of his method of interviewing people who were there, or knew someone Josephus does not record any attempts by the Sicarii to counterattack the besiegers during this process, a significant difference from his accounts of other sieges of the revolt. Any tour guide worth his salt immediately points at the battery, otherwise known as the "Roman ramp," which the Roman soldiers were supposed to have used to position a battering ram to break through the fortress' massive stone walls. According to the romantic story, to die free rather than live as slaves, the defenders each killed their own families, and then drew lots to determine who would kill their compatriots. The Roman legion surrounded Masada and built a circumvallation wall, before commencing construction of a siege ramp against the western face of the plateau, moving thousands of tons of stones and beaten earth to do so. Photo of Roman siege works at Masada. Did they develop radio, the diesel engine, electric power, aircraft? Or in an ancient game of charades? Please correct my thinking if in error. Trapped in the desert fortress-palace Herod built in the previous century, the rebels chose—as Jewish historian Josephus tells us—to commit mass suicide rather than be captured and enslaved by the Romans. Photo: Werner Braun. The Legion Tenth Fretensis, who conducted the siege, even had a boar as one of their emblems, Zias says. Not stating this as fact, just what our guide told us. Of many poor souls According to Josephus, "The Jews hoped that all of their nation beyond the Euphrates would join together with them to raise an insurrection," but in the end there were only 960 Jewish Zealots who fought the Roman army at Masada. Josephus tells us that an ironclad siege tower housing a … In fact he suspects there was no war there at all. [26] There is also some discussion of Masada's defenders, and whether they were "the heroic hard core of the great Jewish revolt against Rome, or a gang of killers who became victims of a last Roman mopping-up operation".
The finds remain open to interpretation. During Yadin's excavations, he found three bodies that he claimed were Jewish Zealots. The siege would have been over shortly after that, Roth feels. [5] Masada was named as the place where David rested after fleeing from his father-in-law, King Saul.
The missing bodies cast further doubt on Josephus’ account. However, Zias says, the Romans had no such constraints and also sacrificed pigs during burials.
Let’s all get together and finish off Rome; put it out of its misery. If the Jews had the wisdom to build Masada, The Jews had a way out Masada. Masada has been described as "a lozenge-shaped table-mountain" that is "lofty, isolated, and to all appearance impregnable". During this time, the Romans built a huge ramp from the west approach that allowed them to reach up to Masada and break in. [25], Others, however, see it as a case of Jewish radicals refusing to compromise, resorting instead to suicide and the murder of their families, both prohibited by Rabbinic Judaism.
Josephus tells us that an ironclad siege tower housing a battering ram was hoisted up the ramp and placed into position to strike against the rebels’ casemate wall. Sign in Setting fire to the wood-and-earth defense wall, the Romans at last made it to the top of Masada. The late general and archaeologist Yigael Yadin, who led the 1963 excavations of the fortress built by King Herod, felt that the archaeological evidence supported Josephus’ account.
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