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grbs-6851	Ladouceur, David J.	Masada: A Consideration of the Literary Evidence	1980	16	.pdf	application/pdf	6907	354	62	When the choice of suicide or surrender confronted Josephus as commander at Jotapata, he chose surrender; Eleazar at Masada chose death. Perhaps the 'unfortunate Jew' was conscience-stricken or genuinely overwhelmed by the heroism of the people he betrayed, Yigael Yadin, the excavator of Masada, has suggested.5 Yet nowhere else in the Bellum does Josephus seem in any way sympathetic toward the Sicarii.	cache/grbs-6851.pdf	txt/grbs-6851.txt