| #1140758 in Books | 1995-12-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.10 x6.00l,1.28 | File type: PDF | 384 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Alexander|a must-read for those wishing to understand the Israeli siege mentality|2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| He looks like Arthur Koestler writing the 13th tribe|By Jacques HERMAN|The author, a jewish man I suppose, has the incredible courage to destroy one of the most important mystificati||""The Masada Myth is both a scholarly and a passionate book, analyzing with great clarity the relationship between deviance and mythology."--Pat Lauderdale, Stanford University
""The Masada Myth" is both a scholarly and a passionate book, analyzing
In 73 A.D, legend has it, 960 Jewish rebels under siege in the ancient desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to a Roman legion. Recorded in only one historical source, the story of Masada was obscure for centuries. In The Masada Myth, Israeli sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda tracks the process by which Masada became an ideological symbol for the State of Israel, the dramatic subject of movies and miniseries, a shrine venerated by generations of ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel | Nachman Ben-Yehuda. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
