57/VIraZ in the end, it came down to just a 1000 ~


MEN,
WOMEN, AND
CHILDREN - the last
of the rebels to survive
the final Roman onslaught?!

The year
was 73 CE/nC.! Fitting that
what had begun with the Sicarii should also
end with the Sicarii!? The city of Jerusalem had already
been burned to the ground, its walls top-pled,
its population slaughtered!

The whole of Palestine now
was once more under Roman "TOTAL" Control? All that remained
of this rebellion were these very last few Sicarii who had fled Yerushalayim with their wives & children
to hole themselves up inside the fortress of Masada,
on the southwestern shore
of the Dead Sea?

Now here they were,
stuck on top of an isolated rock cliff
in the middle of the barren Judean desert,
watching helplessly as a phalanx of Roman soldiers
gradually made its way up the face of that cliff - shields ùp, swords drawn -
ready to put a definitive end to the rebellion that had begùn at least seven years earlier:
these Sicarii originally came to Masada in the first few days after the launch of the war with Rome;
as a naturally fortified and virtually impregnable fortress
situated more than a 1000 feet
above the Dead Sea, Masada
had long served as
a refuge for
the Jews.

Already Daweed
had come here to hide in these rocks from
King Sha'ul when he sent his men
to hunt down the shepherd
boy who would one
day take the
crown from
him.
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