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Masada
 


Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files.
 
 
Archaeological Evidence
 
Excavation Websites
 
 
 
Excavation Reports
 
Hebrew University, Israel Exploration Society, Department of Antiquities.  In Masada: Survey and Excavations (Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society, 1957) pages.
 
Masada: The Yigael Yadin Excavations 1963-1965: Final Reports, The Masada Reports, 8 vols.   Jerusalem: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1989-2007.
 
Watzman, Haim.  "Masada Discoveries."  Archaeology 49:6 (1996) 27.
 
 
Associated Artifacts
 
 
 
Secondary Literature
 
Arav, Rami.  "Archaeology in the Service of Ideology in Israel."  In "A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey": Visions of Israel from Biblical to Modern Times (ed. Leonard J. Greenspoon and Ronald A. Simkins; Studies in Jewish Civilization 11; Omaha: Creighton University Press, 2001) 85-104.
 
Ben-Yehuda, Nachman.  The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
 
Cotton, Hannah M. and Joseph Geiger.  "A Greek Inscribed Ring from Masada."  Israel Exploration Journal 45:1 (1995) 52-4.
 
Cotton, Hannah M., Joseph Geiger and Ehud Netzer.  "A Greek Ostracon from Masada."  Israel Exploration Journal 45:4 (1995) 274-7.
 
Cotton, Hannah M., Omri Lernau and Yuval Goren.  "Fish Sauces from Herodean Masada."  Journal of Roman Archaeology 9 (1996) 223-38.
 
Gill, Dan.  "It's a Natural: Masada Ramp Was Not a Roman Engineering Miracle."  Biblical Archaeology Review 27:5 (2001) 22-31, 56-7.
 
Hirschfeld, Yizhar.  "The Library of King Herod in the Northern Palace of Masada."  Scripta classica Israelica 23 (2004) 69-80.
 
Knox, Reed, Robert Maddin, James D. Muhly and Tamara Stech.  "Iron Objects from Masada: Metallurgical Studies."  Israel Exploration Journal 33 (1983) 97-107.
 
Liphshitz, N. and S. Lev-Yadun.  "The Botanical Remains from Masada.  Identification of the Plant Species and the Possible Origin of the Remnants."  Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 274 (1989) 27-32.
 
Maddin, Robert, James D. Muhly and Tamara Stech.  "Armour Scales from Masada: A Metallurgical Study."  Israel Exploration Journal 33 (1983) 108-109.
 
Magness, Jodi.  Masada.  Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2019.
 
Netzer, Ehud.  The Architecture of Herod the Great Builder.  Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2008; original, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.
 
--------.  "The Rebels' Archive at Masada."  Israel Exploration Journal 54:2 (2004) 218-29.
 
Ovadiah, Asher.  "Mosaics of the Herodian Period in Israel."  In Fifth International Colloquium on Ancient Mosaics: Held at Bath, England, on September 5–12, 1987 under the aegis of L'Association Internationale pour l'Étude de la Mosaïque Antique and Organized by The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics (ed. Peter Johnson, Roger Ling and David J. Smith; Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 9; Ann Arbor, Michigan: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 1994) 1.67-76.
 
Ovadiah, Asher and Rachel Peleg.  "Some Observations on the Role of the Middle Terrace of the Northern Palace of Herod at Masada."  Revue Biblique 113:3 (2006) 321-36, pls. 2-4.
 
Reich, Ronny.  "Women and Men at Masada: Some Anthropological Observations Based on the Small Finds (Coins, Spindles)."  Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins 117:2 (2001) 149-63.
 
Richardson, Alan.  "Camps and Forts of Units and Formations of the Roman Army."  Oxford Journal of Archaeology 21:1 (2002) 93-107.
 
Richardson, Peter.  Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans.  Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
 
Roth, Jonathan.  "The Length of the Siege of Masada."  Scripta classica Israelica 14 (1995) 87-110.
 
Small, David B.  "Phasing Masada's Architecture."  Levant 22 (1990) 139-47.
 
Watzman, Haim.  "Masada Martyrs?"  Archaeology 50:6 (1997) 19.
 
Wilson, E. Jan.  "The Masada Synagogue and Its Relation to Jewish Worship during the Second Temple Period."  BYU Studies 36:3 (1996–1997) 269-76.
 
Yadin, Yigael.  Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome.  New York: Random House, 1971.
 
--------.  Masada: Herod's Fortress and the Zealots' Last Stand.  New York: Welcome Rain, 1998.
 
Zerubavel, Yael.  Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition.   Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
 
Zion, Ilan Ben.  "New Archaeology Shows 'Refugee Camp,' Not Just Rebels, Atop Masada."  The Forward (10 September 2017).  Online, http://forward.com/news/
382132/ exclusive-new-archaeology-shows-refugee-camp-not-just-rebels-atop-masada/, accessed 19 September 2017.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
 
 
Connections of Material to Jesus: Secondary Literature
 
Atkinson, Kenneth.  "Noble Deaths at Gamla and Masada? A Critical Assessment of Josephus' Accounts of Jewish Resistance in Light of Archaeological Discoveries."  In Making History: Josephus and Historical Method (ed. Zuleika Rodgers; Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 110; Boston: Brill, 2007) 349-71.
 
Brighton, Mark Andrew.  The Sicarii in Josephus's Judean War: Rhetorical Analysis and Historical Observations, Early Judaism and Its Literature.  Atlanta/Boston: Society of Biblical Literature/Brill, 2009.
 
Campbell, Duncan B.  "Dating the Siege of Masada."  Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 78 (1988) 156-8.
 
Chapman, Honora Howell.  "Masada in the 1st and 21st Centuries."  In Making History: Josephus and Historical Method (ed. Zuleika Rodgers; Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 110; Boston: Brill, 2007) 82-102.
 
Cohen, Shaye J. D.  "Masada: Literary Tradition, Archaeological Remains, and the Credibility of Josephus."  In Essays in Honour of Yigael Yadin (ed. Geza Vermes and Jacob Neusner; Totowa, New Jersey: Allanheld, Osmun for the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Studies, 1983) 385-405.
 
Cotton, Hannah M.  "The Date of the Fall of Masada.  The Evidence of the Masada Papyri."  Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 78 (1989) 157-62.
 
Hall, John F. and John W. Welch, eds.  Masada and the World of the New Testament, BYU Studies Monographs.  Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1997.
 
Ladouceur, David J.  "Josephus and Masada."  In Josephus, Judaism, and Christianity (ed. Louis H. Feldman and Gohei Hata; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987) 95-113.
 
--------.  "Masada: A Consideration of the Literary Evidence."  Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 21 (1980) 245-60.
 
Schwartz, Daniel R.  "Once Again, Who Captured Masada?: On Doublets, Reading against the Grain, and What Josephus Actually Wrote."  Scripta classica Israelica 24 (2005) 75-83.
 
 
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