Masada Revisited II

About the Book

Masada Revisited II gives a different view of what happened at Masada in 73ce when the Jewish defenders, according to the only historical account as given by Josephus in his book “The Jewish War”, committed mass suicide. Many Jewish people are disconcerted by this version of the story. Since Josephus wrote under the constraint of trying to please his Roman sponsors, his accuracy is suspect. The version given in this play is hopefully more palatable.

About the Author

Arthur Ziffer has published four other books with Authorhouse. They are as follows. Two are plays about the famous Mathematician Isaac Newton with titles “On the Shoulders of Giants” and “Isaac and Amanda”. They were written with co-author Herbert Hauptman, the first Mathematician to win a Nobel prize (Chemistry, 1985; John Nash of “A Beautiful Mind” was the second). The other two are “One Act Plays” and “Two Act Plays”. There are in “One Act Plays” five plays: “Countertransference”, “One Plus One Equals One”, “Mothers”, “Malcolm” and “Mal”. “Mothers” is a play that can be prformed with six women and no men. “Malcolm” and “Mal” are monologues. There are two plays in “Two Act Plays”: “Redemption” and “Death of a Psychiatrist”, both written in a “Law and Order” format with the first acts being police work and the second acts being courtroom centered.