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Masada : Herod's fortress and the Zealots' last stand / Yigael Yadin.
LIBRA - Rare DS110.M33 Y33 1973 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yadin, Yigael, 1917-1984.
- Standardized Title:
- Metsadah. English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Masada Site (Israel)--Siege, 72-73.
- Masada Site (Israel).
- Zealots (Jewish party).
- Jews--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D.
- Jews.
- History.
- Essenes.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Cardinal edition.
- Manufacture:
- London, Fakenham and Reading : Printed by Cox & Wyman Ltd.
- Place of Publication:
- London : []Cardinal edition published by Sphere Books Ltd., [1973]
- Contents:
- The challenge
- The task
- Getting to work
- The site
- The northern palace-villa
- The large bath-house
- The storehouses
- The 'apartment' or grarrison building
- The Byzantine chapel
- The western palace
- The casemate wall
- The ritual bath (mikve)
- The scrolls
- The synagogue and its scrolls
- The remains of the last defenders
- Masada's history in the light of the finds
- The other side of the hill
- The dramatic end
- The pioneers
- The volunteers.
- Notes:
- "Cardinal edition published in 1973 by Sphere Books Ltd ... Reprinted 1975."
- "Translated from the Hebew by Moshe Pearlman."
- "This book was designed by Juanita Grout."
- Includes bibliographical references (page 253) and index.
- תרגום של: מצדה.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok 1976".
- Potok Collection copy is 1975 reprinting.
- ISBN:
- 0351188142
- 9780351188145
- 0351188150
- OCLC:
- 23470238
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