Did Masada really happen?
Did Masada really happen?
Samuel Peterson
William Diaz
no the romans built a massive ramp up onto an empty plateau to fuck with future historians lmao
Jonathan Turner
>According to Kenneth Atkinson, there is no "archaeological evidence that Masada's defenders committed mass suicide."[20]
Ryder Ward
According to Josephus. So if you accept historical Jesus, you accept Masada.
Christian Flores
What exactly would constitute archeological evidence either way of a group of cultists committing mass suicide?
Nolan Davis
>its another Jewish centric thread
Can we stop wanking to them for a day?
Andrew James
Josephus never mentioned Jesus tho, that passage is an obvious later forgery by a typically dishonest Christian.
Jonathan Allen
hide the fucking thread cuck.
Julian Russell
>Did Masada really happen?
Most likely, yes. It made sense. The Sicarii were literal terrorists, and maybe the first religious extremist assassins of all time. The whole "archeological" evidence thing is irrelevant IMO because why would there be any for a mass suicide? We can't definitively say all the details are right, but considering how crazy they were it made sense. Either be killed and enslaved by the Romans, or kill your family and have one kill themselves (suicide is prohibited, so they killed each other) and be in Heaven for eternity. One of the first religious death cults for sure.
Jayden Wood
>t. fedora