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Originally Posted by Originalist
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I checked out the link, this says nothing other than, maybe it didn't happen the way Josephus says it did.
Maybe Josephus was just being used by the Flavian family and Rome.
Everything in the article was at he best, supposition and opinion.
There is nothing wrong with questioning but there needs to be more than what this article gives.
I don't agree with everything that Josephus was attributed with but, as the article states, it is the only witness. That gives more credence to Josephus than to a woman, 1900 years later, looking for her own glory.
The very statement that Josephus was was there and writes it down this way is tremendous weight on his narration. Yes, history is written by the victor but there is history of a mass suicide there at masada. Is it 10, 20 or hundreds? An eyewitness said it was hundreds.
Her questioning the eyewitness account of a witness is weak at best.