Slide Title
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Date
Spring 3-1980
Description
Masada, once a fortress in the last Jewish holdout against the Romans, represents bravery and self sacrifice to modern Jews, which ended in the mass suicide of nine hundred rebels. It is now reached by cable car for visitors. In the twentieth century some biblical chapters were discovered here as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This photograph shows a car ascending Masada in 1980.
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Subject Headings
Dead Sea scrolls; Religion -- Archaeology and religion; Archaeology -- Israel -- Masada;
Country Name
Israel
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chet, "Masada: Cable Car Access" (1980). Browse All. 773.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/773
Keywords
tourism, religion, archaeology, historic, Dead Sea Scrolls, Masada
Notes
http://wikitravel.org/en/Masada
(accessed 11 Nov 2011)
Vanderkam, James C. The Dead Sea Scrolls Today. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994) pp. 35
Rappaport, Uriel. The Story of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (New York: Harvey House, Inc., 1967) pp. 97