Category:Masada (subject)
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Masada was a fortress built by Herod the Great between 37 and 31 BCE. During the Jewish War a group of Sicarii took control of the fortress, which led to the siege and destruction of the site by the Romans, in 72-73 CE.
Masada in ancient sources
The sole source of information about the site of Masada are the writings of Flavius Josephus.
Masada in Scholarship
The site of Masada was identified in 1842 and extensively excavated between 1963 and 1965 by Yigael Yadin.
Masada in Fiction
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This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Masada (subject)"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- Metzadah (1927 Lamdan), poetry
- Bi-nefol Metsadah (1940 Braslavski), children's novel
- Aharit Metsadah (1959 Braslavski/Weil), children's novel
- Metsadah (1966 Yadin), book
- The Zealots of Masada (1967 Pearlman), non-fiction book
- The Rider and His Horse (1968 Haugaard/Dillon), children's novel
- The Last Days (1968 Rayner), novel
- The End of Days (1970 Gavron), novel
- Masada (1970 Greenberg), oratorio
- The Besieged (1972 Gant), novel
- Masada (1973 Berman), novel
- Masada Will Not Fall Again (1973 Greenspan), novel
- The Voices of Masada (1973 Kossoff), novel
- Metsadah 967 (Masada 967 / 1973 Tal / Eliraz), opera (music & libretto)
- A Time to Die (1974 Golden), novel
- The Gladiator: Hill of the Dead (1975 Bulmer), novel
- The Wolf of Masada (1978 Fredman), novel
- Last Night on Masada (1979 Douglas), novel
- Massada: les guerriers de Dieu (1979 Rachet), novel
- Zwölf Steine für Judäa (1979 Zitelmann), novel
- The Tenth Measure (1980 Segal), novel
- Masada (1980 Tacconi), novel
- Serpent (1981 Mosley), novel
- Ani zokher et Metsadah (1982 Ron-Feder/Harel), children's novel
- Sieg im Tod: Masada (1982 Weiss), novel
- Masada (1983 Brogan), novel
- Masada (1983 @1981 Sagal), TV mini-series (Italian ed.)
- Masada (1987 Levy), oratorio
- The Man of Masada (1990 Brogan), novel
- The Road to Masada (1994 Elwood), novel
- Milim (Metamorphosis of a Melody / 1996 Gitai), feature film
- Masada: The Last Fortress (1998 Miklowitz), novel
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- Keeping Faith in the Dust (2000 Maltz), novel
- Return to Masada (2001 Makin), novel
- אני, שלום בת שמואל (I, Shalom bat Shmuel / 2003 Ben-Guigui Yeger), novel
- The Masada Scroll (2006 Block/Vaughan), novel
- Masada (2007 Siliato), novel
- Jerusalem's Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea (2008 Seward), non-fiction
- Masada: An Epic Story (2009 Eshel), book (English ed.)
- מצדה (Masada / 2009 Eshel), book
- The Last Man (2012 Deutermann), novel
Media in category "Masada (subject)"
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1970 * Gann (novel).jpg 300 × 436; 22 KB
1981 * Sagal (TV miniseries).jpg 214 × 317; 12 KB
1995 * Ben-Yehuda.jpg 328 × 499; 26 KB
2011 * Hoffman (novel).jpg 333 × 499; 29 KB
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