Masada

Author : Jodi Magness
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691216775

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Masada by Jodi Magness Pdf

The dramatic story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman Empire, as revealed by the archaeology of its famous site 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 Temple—reportedly took their own lives rather than surrender to the Roman army. This dramatic event, which took place on top of Masada, a barren and windswept mountain overlooking the Dead Sea, spawned a powerful story of Jewish resistance that came to symbolize the embattled modern State of Israel. Incorporating the latest findings, Jodi Magness, an archaeologist who has excavated at Masada, explains what happened there—and what it has come to mean since. Featuring numerous illustrations, this is an engaging exploration of an ancient story that continues to grip the imagination today.

Author : Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780299148331

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Masada Myth by Nachman Ben-Yehuda Pdf

In 73 A.D., legend has it, 960 Jewish rebels under siege in the ancient desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to a Roman legion. Recorded in only one historical source, the story of Masada was obscure for centuries. In The Masada Myth, Israeli sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda tracks the process by which Masada became an ideological symbol for the State of Israel, the dramatic subject of movies and miniseries, a shrine venerated by generations of Zionists and Israeli soldiers, and the most profitable tourist attraction in modern Israel. Ben-Yehuda describes how, after nearly 1800 years, the long, complex, and unsubstantiated narrative of Josephus Flavius was edited and augmented in the twentieth century to form a simple and powerful myth of heroism. He looks at the ways this new mythical narrative of Masada was created, promoted, and maintained by pre-state Jewish underground organizations, the Israeli army, archaeological teams, mass media, youth movements, textbooks, the tourist industry, and the arts. He discusses the various organizations and movements that created “the Masada experience” (usually a ritual trek through the Judean desert followed by a climb to the fortress and a dramatic reading of the Masada story), and how it changed over decades from a Zionist pilgrimage to a tourist destination. Placing the story in a larger historical, sociological, and psychological context, Ben-Yehuda draws upon theories of collective memory and mythmaking to analyze Masada’s crucial role in the nation-building process of modern Israel and the formation of a new Jewish identity. An expert on deviance and social control, Ben-Yehuda looks in particular at how and why a military failure and an enigmatic, troubling case of mass suicide (in conflict with Judaism’s teachings) were reconstructed and fabricated as a heroic tale.

Author : Jon Schiller
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1424142539

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Masada by Jon Schiller Pdf

Dani Sharon, an Israeli business entrepreneur, is recruited by his governments clandestine LEKEM to mastermind acquiring the components and technology to build a nuclear arsenal. Danis flamboyant character and tactical brilliance make him a natural for the assignment. His only stipulation in accepting the task is that he be allowed to skim a profit off all his transactions to finance his movie ventures. Dani obtains the necessary material and information through extralegal and clandestine methods. He cuts numerous deals with European, South African, and American companies. What he cant buy, he steals in daring capers monitored by the superpowers. Within a short time Israel explodes its first atom bomb. However, soon after this success, Israeli leaders realize radioactive fallout would endanger their own population if the atom bomb were used against hostile Arab neighbors. They conclude a neutron bomb is necessary to protect the Israelis from this danger. Using a movie production company as a cover, Dani begins acquiring the technology for such a bomb and the ballistic missile to deliver it.

Author : Phil Carradice
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526728982

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Masada by Phil Carradice Pdf

The dramatic history behind one of the great landmarks of ancient Israel. In the spring of 73 AD, the rock fortress of Masada on the western shore of the Dead Sea was the site of an event that was breathtaking in its courage and self-sacrifice. Here the last of the Jewish Zealots who, for nearly eight years, had waged war against the Roman occupiers of their country made their last stand. The Zealots on Masada had withstood a two-year siege but with Roman victory finally assured, they were faced by two options: capture or death. They chose the latter, and when the Roman legions forced their way into the hill fort the following morning they were met only with utter silence by row upon row of bodies. Rather than fall into enemy hands the 960 men, women, and children who had defended the fortress so heroically had committed suicide. The story of the siege and eventual capture of Masada is unique, not just in Israeli legend but in the history of the world. It is a story of bravery that even the Roman legionaries, well used to death and brutality, could see and appreciate. It was a massacre but a massacre with a difference: carried out by the victims themselves. This book tells the story, also covering the excavation of the remote hilltop site in the twentieth century.

Author : E. W. Bonadio
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595527564

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The Masada Stones by E. W. Bonadio Pdf

For his entire life, professor Aaron Skorsky has searched for the truth. Finding it near the heights of Masada, he learns that the account of a mass suicide by 1000 Hebrew rebels may have been falsely reported. After 2000 years, an ancient alchemy used by the Romans against the rebel zealots lays unclaimed. Finding it is only half the problem and soon Skorsky finds that he must choose between revealing a threat to mankind or saving the life of someone dear to him. Caught in the middle of an Israeli plot and desperate measures by Arab terrorists who want to expose them, Skorsky has little choice but to bend to the higher power.

Author : Yigael YADIN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:504056028

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Masada. Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand. (Translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Pearlman.). by Yigael YADIN Pdf

Author : Ernest K Gann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Antagonists by Ernest K Gann Pdf

Author : Amnon Ben-Tor
Publisher : Biblical Archaeology Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9652210757

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Masada in the Hasmonean period -- Masada in the Herodian period -- Building materials -- Ornamentation -- Construction at the time of the procurators and the Roman garrison -- Construction during the priod of the rebels -- The eastern gate -- Building 8 (the commandant's residence?) -- The storerooms -- The large bathhouse -- The approach to the northern palace -- The northern palace -- The water supply system -- The synagogue -- The casemate wall -- Building 9 (hostel?) -- Building 10 : the western palace -- The small palaces -- The layout of the palaces -- The phases of construction of Herodian Masada -- Pottery Written finds -- Coins -- Other finds -- The battle for Masada -- Masada in the Byzantine period -- Archaeology and the Masada myth.

Author : Gloria D. Miklowitz
Publisher : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802851681

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Masada by Gloria D. Miklowitz Pdf

In the year 72 C.E., after a four-year war between Rome and Judea, only one fortress remains to be taken: Masada, high above the Dead Sea in what is now Israel. Two years later, the commander of the famous Roman Tenth Legion, Flavius Silva, marches toward Masada to capture or kill the 960 Jewish zealots who hold it. In this eloquent and powerful novel, we meet 17-year-old Simon ben Eleazar, son of the Jewish leader of Masada. Apprenticed too Masada s only physician, Simon learns to help victims of the enemy s onslaught as he struggles with his love for Deborah, the intended of his best friend, and with the painful decision he must ultimately make.

Author : Arthur Milner
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781469774787

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Two Plays about Israel/Palestine by Arthur Milner Pdf

TWO PLAYS ABOUT ISRAEL/PALESTINE "Arthur Milner's plays are always smart, engaging and contemporary. Milner is a man of his times who never talks down to his audience, even as he courts and incites strong reactions. We forgive him, though because he entertains us with clever and funny characters. He seems incapable of writing a character without a sense of humour." -Patrick McDonald MASADA "theatre stripped to its essence...a challenging piece of work...factually fascinating and a skillful piece of writing...driven by a powerful and frightening logic." -Jill Lawless, Now Magazine "one of the greatest examples of artistic moral courage I've ever witnessed...leads its audience onto very slippery moral ground and leaves the viewer to grope for his or her own answers...Writing and stagin Masada was an act of moral courage." -Brian Gorman, Ottawa Sun FACTS> "riveting...Milner has dared tackle one of the most difficult and explosive political questions on earth...a strong will, a confident pen, clear thinking, a well-informed human being, and a writer passionately engaged...This is a powerful play." -Alvina Ruprecht, Capital Critics Circle "Facts is a stimulating and provocative piece of theatre which delivers a fascinating political and philosophical debate without reducing the characters to talking heads." -Jamie Portman, Postmedia News

Author : Ehud Netzer,Yigael Yadin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture, Ancient
ISBN : 9652210129

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Masada by Ehud Netzer,Yigael Yadin Pdf

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : UCLA:L0072247620

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FCC Record by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015063332038

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Masada: The pottery of Masada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yael Zerubavel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0226981584

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Recovered Roots by Yael Zerubavel Pdf

Because new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In Recovered Roots, Yael Zerubavel illuminates this dynamic process by examining the construction of Israeli national tradition. In the years leading to the birth of Israel, Zerubavel shows, Zionist settlers in Palestine consciously sought to rewrite Jewish history by reshaping Jewish memory. Zerubavel focuses on the nationalist reinterpretation of the defense of Masada against the Romans in 73 C.E. and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 133-135; and on the transformation of the 1920 defense of a new Jewish settlement in Tel Hai into a national myth. Zerubavel demonstrates how, in each case, Israeli memory transforms events that ended in death and defeat into heroic myths and symbols of national revival. Drawing on a broad range of official and popular sources and original interviews, Zerubavel shows that the construction of a new national tradition is not necessarily the product of government policy but a creative collaboration between politicans, writers, and educators. Her discussion of the politics of commemoration demonstrates how rival groups can turn the past into an arena of conflict as they posit competing interpretations of history and opposing moral claims on the use of the past. Zerubavel analyzes the emergence of counter-memories within the reality of Israel's frequent wars, the ensuing debates about the future of the occupied territories, and the embattled relations with Palestinians. A fascinating examination of the interplay between history and memory, this book will appeal to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and folklorists, as well as to scholars of cultural studies, literature, and communication.

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725211261

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Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults, Part 3 by Jacob Neusner Pdf

The editor hopes that these papers, on themes of interest to Morton Smith, will contribute to the critical discussion of some problems of concern to him. Since Smith is one of the great scholarly masters of this generation, it is through scholarship, and not through encomia, that the editor and his colleagues choose to pay their tribute. The facts about the man, his writings, his critical judgment, intelligence, erudition and wit, his labor as selfless teacher and objective, profound critic speak for themselves and require no embellishment.... I hope that the quality of what follows will impress my teacher, Professor Morton Smith, and those scholars who care to read these volumes, as having been worth the immense efforts of all concerned. From the Foreword by Jacob Neusner