RE: The Myth of Masada
March 13, 2013 at 9:51 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2013 at 9:55 pm by Justtristo.)
(March 13, 2013 at 6:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Josephus was in Rome when Flavius Silva took Masada. As was customary in ancient "historical" writing the "speeches" of Silva and Eleazar ben Ya'ir are fictional devices to move the plot along.
Even more oddly, the drawing lots horseshit at the end of the Masada story is remarkably similar to the drawing lots story at the end of the siege of Jotapata - where Josephus allegedly was - to the point where it seems he simply copied the idea.
The last thing the rebels on Masada had to worry about was being forced into slavery.
The Romans knew what to do with rebels.
That was quite likely the real fate of the rebels, being crucified along some major road, although Josephus would have not have that mentioned. Even Rome Josephus would have eventually known about the fate of the Masada Rebels.
Because I hypothesis that he secretly admired them (he probably only defected to the Romans to save his own skin). Maybe for the rest of his life he might have wished sometimes, he should have been died back in Jotapata.
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