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 are climbing up a very steep hill towards a town, which looks like an eagle’s nest on an Alpine crest. They are proceeding with great difficulty, going eastwards and leaving behind a continuous chain of mountains, which are part of the Judaean range and which, like the buttress of a huge wall, extend towards the southern end of the Dead Sea. The crest on which the town is built, is very high, solitary and steep, such as eagles are fond of for their regal lovemaking, as they disdain witnesses and community."[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 attracting upon itself the thunderbolts of divine wrath, not so much because it expelled Me, but because all the commandments of the Decalogue are infringed in it."[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?
GRM 392
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Fortress apparently built by Jonathas Maccabee, then by Herod the Great.
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