I am grateful to James H. Charlesworth for accepting this book for publication, and for
several valuable conversations on the topic. His wisdom greatly enhanced my research. I …

Two thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and children—the last holdouts of the
revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second …

This article takes a material and comparative approach to the Qumran collection. Distinctive
features set the Qumran manuscripts apart from other Judaean Desert collections …

The fall of Nero and the civil wars of 69 CE ushered in an era scarred by the recent conflicts;
Flavian literature also inherited a rich tradition of narrating nefas from its predecessors who …

Half a century ago, the primary contours of the history of the Jews in Roman times were not
subject to much debate. This standard account collapsed, however, when a handful of …

Examining the presentation of sicarii in Flavius Josephus's Judean War from a rhetorical
perspective, this article argues that each reference to sicarii alludes to the clauses of a …

Despite the rise in academic interest about the Roman imperial context of early Christian
writings, the social-historical question of the military in Palestine has remained almost …

An attempt is made to ratiocinate historical events at Mount Masada in circa 74 CE as
related by Josephus Flavius. Cohen (1982, 393) clearly sees Josephus as a mostly …

Masada ist ihre letzte Zuflucht. 967 jüdische Männer, Frauen und Kinder wollen hier, in der
von Herodes dem Großen erbauten Felsenfestung über dem Toten Meer, der Belagerung …

Jewish tradition holds that both the first and second Jerusalem temples were destroyed on
the 9th of Av (m. Taʿan. 4: 6). According to Josephus both temples were destroyed on the …