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Masada and was
The most famous was Masada, where, in 70-73 CE, a small group of Jewish zealots held out against the might of the Roman legion, and Machaerus where, according to Josephus, John the Baptist was imprisoned by Herod Antipas and died.
The site of Masada was identified in 1842 and extensively excavated between 1963 and 1965 by an expedition led by Israeli archeologist Yigael Yadin.
The Masada story was the inspiration for the " Masada plan " devised by the British during the Mandate era.
Masada was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
* The oldest viable carbon-14-dated seed that has grown into a plant was a Judean date palm seed about 2, 000 years old, recovered from excavations at Herod the Great's palace on Masada in Israel.
Josephus particularly associates them with the mass suicide at Masada in 73 CE and to the subsequent refusal " to submit to the taxation census when Cyrenius was sent to Judea to make one " ( Josephus ) as part of their religious and political scheme as resistance fighters:
Many texts found there, especially those from Masada, are quite similar to the Masoretic Text, suggesting that an ancestor of the Masoretic Text was indeed extant as early as the 2nd century BCE.
" Of some of the proposed parallel Masada jars, Bar-Nathan wrote " It seems that this group of storage jars was brought ( or pillaged?
In 73 CE the Romans stormed the mountain fortress of Masada, which also was located on the western bank of the Dead Sea.
Given the historical associations of the project's name ( see Masada ), the Hebrew titles of the compositions, and the Jewish imagery on the covers of the associated albums, Zorn was clearly exploring his Jewish roots, stating, " The idea with Masada is to produce a sort of radical Jewish music, a new Jewish music which is not the traditional one in a different arrangement, but music for the Jews of today.
The first group to use the Masada name was Zorn ( alto saxophone ), Dave Douglas ( trumpet ), Greg Cohen ( double bass ), and Joey Baron ( drum set ).
A decade prior to the creation of the Bar Kokhba Sextet, the Bar Kokhba album was released, featuring a cast of regular Zorn collaborators performing Masada material in a variety of different small ensemble configurations.
During Zorn's 50th Birthday Celebration at Tonic in September 2003, Electric Masada was recorded live.
The fifth and final volume Masada Rock features the band Rashanim and was released in August 2005.
Advertised by the network as an " ABC Novel for Television ," it was a fictionalized account of the historical siege of the Masada citadel in Israel by legions of the Roman Empire in AD 73.
Masada was filmed on location at the site of the ancient fortress, in the Judean Desert, Israel.
A 2-disc DVD release entitled Masada — The Complete Epic Mini-Series was released on September 11, 2007.
In 2007, an Israeli flag measuring 660 by 100 metres and weighing 5. 2 tonnes was unfurled near the ancient Jewish fortress of Masada, breaking the world record for the largest flag.
The siege of Masada was among the final accords of the First Jewish-Roman War.
The Sicarii on Masada were commanded by Elazar ben Ya ' ir ( who, contrary to popular belief, was not the same person as Eleazar ben Simon ), and in 70 AD they were joined by additional Sicarii and their families expelled from Jerusalem by the Jewish population with whom the Sicarii were in conflict shortly before the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple.
The account of the siege of Masada was supposedly related to Josephus by two women who survived the suicide by hiding inside a cistern along with five children, and repeated Eleazar ben Ya ' ir's exhortations to his followers, prior to the mass suicide, verbatim to the Romans.

Masada and one
Camp F, one of several legionary camps at Masada, just outside the circumvallation wall
Orthodox Judaism considers this usage inappropriate, as it does not consider synagogues a replacement for the Temple in Jerusalem ( there were local places of worship contemporaneous with the existence of the Temple, e. g. the one that can be seen at Masada ).
Remnants of one of several legionary camps at Masada in Israel, just outside the circumvallation wall at the bottom of the image.
Finally, in the third year of the siege, 73, The Romans completed a massive earthwork siege ramp up one face of the mountain on which Masada sat.
Remnants of one of several legionary camps at Masada, just outside the circumvallation wall
Masada has just one goal: to conquer Grayson and restore the " true Faith " to their original world.
Remnants of one of several legionary camps of X Fretensis at Masada in Israel, just outside the circumvallation wall which can be seen at the bottom of the image.
Masada was instrumental in championing the casting of both Jim Carrey ( one of the few White cast members ) and Jamie Foxx, not only helping to ensure the success of the show, but fast-tracking the two aspiring, young comedians ’ careers.

Masada and several
* 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.

Masada and historical
ABC, concerned that the audience would be unfamiliar with the historical background of the story, commissioned a 30 minute documentary, Back To Masada.
The Rhineland Jews looked to historical precedents since Biblical times to justify their actions: the honourable suicide of Saul, the Maccabees revolt against Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the suicide pact at Masada, and the Bar Kochba revolt were seen as justifiable deaths in the face of a stronger enemy.
Adding to the pressure, Haven is negotiating its own alliance with Masada, Grayson's historical rival.
On television, she played a part in the soap opera Dallas as Angelica Nero, and more prominently, in the historical miniseries Centennial in 1978 and Masada ( opposite Peter O ' Toole and Peter Strauss ) in 1981.

Masada and miniseries
* Masada ( miniseries )
In 1981, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for his portrayal of Pomponius Falco in the television miniseries Masada.
Masada is an American television miniseries that aired on ABC in April 1981.
The complete Masada miniseries first made it to the video market on four VHS tapes in 2001.
He starred in the 1981 miniseries Masada as Rubrius Gallius.
His most notable roles include Hamidou, the vicious prison warden in Midnight Express ( 1978 ), Bluto in Robert Altman's Popeye ( 1980 ), Gideon in the ABC miniseries Masada and the Beast Rabban in David Lynch's Dune ( 1984 ).
* Masada ( miniseries )
* Masada ( miniseries ) ( 1981 )

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