Last Stand of the Great Jewish Revolt - Siege of Jerusalem/Masada (73 AD) 3/3
Youtube Description: In 73 AD Masada, the impregnable mountain fortress in the Judaean desert, stood as the final holdout against the onslaught of Rome’s legions. The siege that followed would mark the final, bloody suppression of the Jewish revolt with an encounter whose awe inspiring remains can still be seen in the desert today!
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More Classical Antiquity Documentaries:
Literary Sources:
'The Jewish Revolt' by Si Sheppard
'The Forts of Judaea' by Samuel Rocca
'Legions of Rome' by Stephen Dando-Collins
'Uniforms of the Roman World' by Kevin Kiley<HR>
IMPORTANT NOTE: In 70 AD, Roman Emperor Titus invaded Jerusalem and the 'Seige of Jerusalem' resulted in the death of 1,100,000 Jews.
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The Gospel Of Jesus, if such a Text ever existed, may have been destroyed at the 'Seige of Jerusalem', along with other invaluable manuscripts and writings.
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What is Jewish? Judaism encompasses the religion, philosophy, culture and way of life of the Jewish people. Judaism is a monotheistic religion, with the Torah as its foundational text (part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible), and supplemental
oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud. Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship that God established with the Children of Israel.
Judaism includes a wide corpus of texts, practices, theological positions, and forms of organization. Within Judaism there are a variety of movements, most of which emerged from Rabbinic Judaism, which holds that God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah.
The Jews are an ethnoreligious group and include those born Jewish and converts to Judaism. In 2012, the world Jewish population was estimated at about 14 million, or roughly 0.2% of the total world population. About 42% of all Jews reside in Israel and about 42% reside in the United States and Canada, with most of the remainder living in Europe.