Endnote 3 – It’s a Natural: Masada Ramp Was Not a Roman Engineering Miracle

Sources that advocate that the besieging forces numbered 16,000 to 25,000 men (6,000 to 10,000 legionnaires and 10,000 to 15,000 slave workers) include Moshe Pearlman, The Zealots of Masada (Herzlia: Palphot; repr. London: Hamilton, 1969; New York: Scribner, 1967), p. 13; and Louis H. Feldman, Josephus and Modern Scholarship (1937–1980) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1984), p. 776.