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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 sol
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- Author
- Nachman Ben-Yehuda; American Council of Learned Societies
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780299148348
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, Middle Eastern History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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