Questioning Masada
Where Masada’s Defenders Fell
A garbled passage in Josephus has obscured the location of the mass suicide
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Footnotes
See Ehud Netzer, “The Last Days and Hours of Masada,” BAR 17:06.
Endnotes
Benedikt Niese was the German scholar who edited the works of Flavius Josephus in the Teubner series, Flavii Iosephi opera recognovit Benedictus Niese, 7 vols. (Berlin: Weidmannos, 1888–1895). It is considered the authoritative scientific edition of the Greek text of Josephus.