Stop 82 · Historical Interlude: The Roman War

Herodium and Masada

The last fortress

Sea of GalileeDead SeaDead SeaJudeaThe Dead Sea22. Hebron and Mamre33. Sodom and the Dead Sea shore44. Beersheba and Gerar1010. Arad and the Negev2727. Ein Gedi3939. Maresha and Beit Guvrin4040. Lachish8282. Herodium and MasadaHerodium and Masada
From 30,000 feet

Not scripture: Josephus. Herod's mountain palace and the rock above the Dead Sea where the last of the revolt ended in 73. The land remembers what it cost.

Stop 82 of 84. 53 km from Jerusalem. Next stop, Megiddo, again, is 142 km away.

The witness in full

Josephus, Jewish War 7.8-9

Josephus, The Jewish War, in William Whiston's public-domain translation. This is history, not scripture, and the chapter says so. The passage is inserted from the Whiston text, not from memory, when this chapter is written.

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This stop is being written. The reading above is complete and the map is right; the walk itself, in my own words from the ground, comes in order as the book is finished. Stop 1, Shechem, is written in full if you want to see the shape of a chapter.

Supporting passages and the contested points for this stop are already fixed in the spine of the book and will be printed here.