Jewish slaves built Masada ramp?
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Jewish slaves built Masada ramp?
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09-30-2013, 10:07 PM
Quote:I have always heard that legionaries did it as engineers.Quite so. Josephus, Jewish War 7.306: "Silva ordered the army to throw up an embankment" (literally, "to bring earth for heaping up"). But it's the army, not the Jewish slaves (who are press-ganged into carrying the daily supplies). |
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Jewish slaves built Masada ramp? - by richard - 09-30-2013, 01:30 PM
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