Masada
The fortress city of Herod.
Inhabitants or natives
The daughter-in-law of old Ananias whom she abandons in the street, Ananias and Saul his sons, Jonathas, the Herodian notable, her future husband.
Description
A harsh and cramped city."They climb a goat path toward a city that looks like an eagle's nest on an alpine summit. They arrive there with great difficulty, going from west to east, turning their back on an unbroken chain of mountains that are already part of the Judean mountain range. By a powerful protrusion, like the buttress of a colossal wall, it advances toward the Dead Sea at its western end, that is to say toward the southern end of the Dead Sea. It is truly a high, solitary, steep peak, such as eagles like for their royal loves, disdainful of witnesses and all society."[1]
Notable events
Jesus is driven out there, causing a small riot, instigated by the Daughter-in-law of Ananias who alerted Jonathas, her future husband, a wealthy Herodian. Peter predicts that Masada will share the same fate as Sodom and Gomorrah, which Jesus confirms:"It is gathering upon itself the thunderbolts of divine wrath. And it is not so much for having driven me out as because, in it, the Decalogue is violated in all its commandments."[2]
Its name
Herod's fortress city on the shores of the Dead Sea, south of Engedi. Other names: Mezada, Massada, Es-Sebbeh, Horvot Mezada, Mesada, Mezada, Sebbeh, The Stronghold.
Where is it mentioned in the work?
EMV 392
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Fortress apparently built by Jonathas Maccabee, then by Herod the Great.
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