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...Flavius Josephus, in The Antiquities of the Jews
...their bomber (Newfoundland-Ireland). The Britons collected the ?10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail for a nonstop flight-still offering prizes, I see-while the pioneering Americans languished in comparative obscurity. I had occasion to research this episode thoroughly, for it occurred during the tenure of Josephus Daniels as Secretary of the Navy (whose biographer I have the honor...
...lengthy account of the battle of Masada, Historian Flavius Josephus described in meticulous detail the participants, the strategy, the topography and Masada's elaborate buildings. Modern historians had little else to go on in their studies of Masada; because of its inaccessible location and difficult terrain, the fortress until recently had been only partially probed by archaeologists. Between 1963 and 1965, however, Masada was subjected to its second great siege-by diggers, not soldiers...
Israeli archaeologists are still studying the wealth of artifacts unearthed at Masada, but have already learned enough to establish that Josephus was indeed a worthy reporter. The dates on both Roman and Jewish coins help confirm when the Jewish revolt against Rome began (A.D. 66), and when the Zealots died. The three-tiered, mosaic-floored villa and ceremonial palace built by Herod and later occupied by the Zealots also conform closely to the descriptions of Josephus...
...different name, one of which was that of Eleazar Ben Ya'ir, the leader of the Zealots. "Could it be," asks Yadin, "that we had discovered evidence associated with the death of the very last group of Masada's defenders?" The answer, he feels, is suggested by Josephus' description of the last moments of Masada: They then chose ten men by lot out of them, to slay all the rest . . . and when these ten had, without fear, slain them all, they made the same rule for casting lots for themselves, that he whose lot it was should...