This group took as their role model the Biblical Phinehas, who killed Zimri with a spear, and counted among the chief crimes the theft of a certain cup.
This group took as their role model the Biblical Phinehas, who killed Zimri with a spear, and counted among the chief crimes the theft of a certain cup. They first rose up against a census, and forty of them were later burned to death for responding to a call to destroy a statue of an eagle. Those who informed and collaborated against this group were killed by their dagger-men, the Sicarii. Some members of this group held off the Tenth Fretensis legion for three years during an attack by Flavius Silva, though Eleazar ben Jair ultimately decided that they should kill themselves rather than surrender. For 10 points, the defenders of Masada were part of what political group in ancient Judea that worked against Roman rule with great passion?
This group took as their role model the Biblical Phinehas, who killed Zimri with a spear, and counted among the chief crimes the theft of a certain cup.
Zealots