[MarkL]

The United Nations, which put the Israeli mesa on the list of World Heritage Sites

Well of course the UN likes Masada... All the Jews died!

Mark

[onedoug]

Were even the historical basis undermined, as "archeologists" seem pervasively wont to do, it wouldn't be enough to diminish the God of Abraham, Issac and Israel.

[dts32041]

Next they are going to say that Davy Crockett wasn't the last angleo to die at the Alamo.

You say that has already been disporved.

Sometimes the Myth is more impotant than the truth.

Like JFK was ready to pull out of Viet Nam, and he was screwing around with MM.

[Notforprophet]

Ben-Yehuda is probably correct about the Zealots/Sicarii - they most likely were not the pious and heroic types portrayed in the TV mini-series and heralded in popular tradition. But it seems the account of Josephus was in most respects correct, and I see no reason to lambast Yadin for giving a human face to the archaeological findings.

[Blunderfromdownunder]

The fact that Yadin went a little far in his interpretations of the Masada data was well known to the archaeologists and former Masada volunteers I worked with at En Gedi in 2001. And it is true that the Sicarii were for all intents and purposes terrorists - I saw first hand what they did to En Gedi, and helped excavate some of their victims.

[Capt. Tom]

Is this like the black churches burning in Arkansas? - tom

[dennisw]

All I know is I have visited Masada.