Terrific interview. Jacob, your skills are just getting better and better, ❤ the channel, learn so much. Ty to Dr. Magness for her public scholarship efforts. At ~26:45 you two are clearly enjoying the convo & Jacob is so relaxed & smiling! So nice to see people engaging in thoughtful, serious, and also civil dialogue.
(28 March 2024) Flavius Josephus published his work _The History of Jews,_ some time after Masada's fall to the Romans. Within living memory, of Masada's fall, there would have existed many witnesses, Roman soldiers, who served at the city's fall, to dispute Josephus' account of a mass suicide. Why Josephus would make a false claim about suicide with so many living Roman witnesses about to claim he was a liar, does'nt make any sense to me. The Roman soldiers stationed at Masada after its fall, would explain why the skeletons of the suicide were not present for archaeologists to find, they were removed by the Roman soldiers, who would not want to be exposed to rotting corpses while on duty there. Most probably the Romans burned the corpses on funeral pyres, as this was a common Roman method of disposal of the dead. Josephus in his _History of the Jews_ opined that Manetho's _History of Egypt_ (written in Greek) mention of the Hyksos Expulsion, was probably _the Egyptian version_ of Israel's Exodus under Moses. Josephus' statement regarding the Hyksos Expulsion being recast as Israel's Exodus makes sense to me, based on my research.
Masada's fame isn't rooted in the suicide narrative, but in the preservation of the archaeological site, which is also a fully immersive tourist experience. You can climb up the mountain and view the Judean Hills and the Roman ramp from the same perspective as the former occupants, and also inspect other remnants such as the giant cisterns
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Very interesting. Thank you to both.
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Terrific interview. Jacob, your skills are just getting better and better, ❤ the channel, learn so much. Ty to Dr. Magness for her public scholarship efforts. At ~26:45 you two are clearly enjoying the convo & Jacob is so relaxed & smiling! So nice to see people engaging in thoughtful, serious, and also civil dialogue.
interesting place for sure
(28 March 2024)
Flavius Josephus published his work _The History of Jews,_ some time after Masada's fall to the Romans.
Within living memory, of Masada's fall, there would have existed many witnesses, Roman soldiers, who served at the city's fall, to dispute Josephus' account of a mass suicide.
Why Josephus would make a false claim about suicide with so many living Roman witnesses about to claim he was a liar, does'nt make any sense to me.
The Roman soldiers stationed at Masada after its fall, would explain why the skeletons of the suicide were not present for archaeologists to find, they were removed by the Roman soldiers, who would not want to be exposed to rotting corpses while on duty there. Most probably the Romans burned the corpses on funeral pyres, as this was a common Roman method of disposal of the dead.
Josephus in his _History of the Jews_ opined that Manetho's _History of Egypt_ (written in Greek) mention of the Hyksos Expulsion, was probably _the Egyptian version_ of Israel's Exodus under Moses.
Josephus' statement regarding the Hyksos Expulsion being recast as Israel's Exodus makes sense to me, based on my research.
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Masada's fame isn't rooted in the suicide narrative, but in the preservation of the archaeological site, which is also a fully immersive tourist experience. You can climb up the mountain and view the Judean Hills and the Roman ramp from the same perspective as the former occupants, and also inspect other remnants such as the giant cisterns
Masada's fame is rooted in the suicide narrative. Every story I ever saw in the media about Masada last century was about the suicide narrative.
Always associated mass suicide with Jonestown and Masada.
Agree with BC (before Christ) and AD (anno domini -> in the year of our... Lord!) ! ;)
Oh God, who gives a fook. Stop whining.
Yeshua wasn't born in 1ad
Paul Atreides, lord of the huqoq horns. Atreus = Alpheus
I don't think so, Magness. 🤔