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the jewish war
Masada is located on the edge of the Judean Desert and the Dead Sea Valley. Masada is 1300 metre high upon the east cliff and a 300 feet high cliff in the west. The plateau on the top is of a rhomboid-shaped and flat. It was once described as a “steep snake path” as it [...]
1.) What perspective is represented in Josephus’ reconstruction of what happen at Masada? The perspective which was represented in Josephus’ reconstruction of the events in Masada was that the accounts which Josephus had wrote were one sided accounts and biased towards the Jewish people. Josephus was a Jew himself, but used his one-sided account to the [...]
Fact & Opinion Questions
1. Using examples (modern or Ancient), discuss the difference between ‘fact’ and opinion’. A fact is something that is something to do without dispute which is basically a straight forward question, for example a fact would be Julius Caesar’s assassination in 44BC.An opinion would be something like a personal belief with no sufficient evidence. An example of this [...]
