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Originally Posted by Wibble
Interesting that you take the view of Josephus verbatim when just about everyone else in the world thinks of him as highly unreliable. Doubly so with things like this because he was a Jew collaborated with the Romans and was known for his anti-Jewish propaganda to please his masters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada |
Reliability is the problem with most ancient authors. I wouldn’t class Josephus account of ben Yair’s heroic speech as anti-Jewish propaganda though.