DMC
September 22, 2001, 3:06am
1
As an attempt to keep this out of GD, I don’t wish to debate whether it actually happened, but did Josephus describe what weapon the Zealots used to kill themselves?
Swords.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/josephusmasada.html
…every one of whom laid himself down by his wife and children on the ground, and threw his arms about them, and they offered their necks to the stroke of those who by lot executed that melancholy office;
<snip>
…the nine offered their necks to the executioner, and he who was the last of all took a view of all the other bodies, lest perchance some or other among so many that were slain should want his assistance to be quite dispatched; and when he perceived that they were all slain, he set fire to the palace, and with the great force of his hands ran his sword entirely through himself, and fell down dead near to his own relations.