You are hereHomeBARSeptember/October 2001It’s a Natural: Masada Ramp Was Not a Roman Engineering Miracle Nachman Ben-Yehuda cites 14 history books and 16 guidebooks in which this statement is made (Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel [Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1995], tables 8.1, 9.1). Join the BAS Library! Already a library member? Log in here. Institution user? Log in with your IP address.