Sicarii

The Jewish historian Josephus describes the reign of "lawlessness and barbarity" that was inaugurated about the middle of the first century A.D. by the band of assassins known as the Sicarii, who infested the country round

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

They were afterwards called Sicarii, from their use of the sica, i.e., the

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

Those that were called Sicarii had taken possession of it formerly, but at this time they overran the neighboring countries, aiming only to procure to themselves necessaries; for the fear they were then in prevented their further ravages.

The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709

While not pilgrims exactly, the Jewish nationalists that most strongly opposed the Romans - first, the terrorists known as Sicarii, and then the religious Zealots, both parties of brutal killers - found their strongest support among those who, like them, had most idealized Jerusalem and so most hated those who had come to rule over them with implicit (and occasionally explicit) threats to defile their land and its most holy city.

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While not pilgrims exactly, the Jewish nationalists that most strongly opposed the Romans - first, the terrorists known as Sicarii, and then the religious Zealots, both parties of brutal killers - found their strongest support among those who, like them, had most idealized Jerusalem and so most hated those who had come to rule over them with implicit (and occasionally explicit) threats to defile their land and its most holy city.

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Ha'aretz also notes there is a Mea Shearim-based gang called the Sicarii, named after the Zealots who helped bring about the destruction of the Second Temple.

FailedMessiah.com 2008

Ha'aretz also notes there is a Mea Shearim-based gang called the Sicarii, named after the Zealots who helped bring about the destruction of the Second Temple.

FailedMessiah.com 2008

Ha'aretz also notes there is a Mea Shearim-based gang called the Sicarii, named after the Zealots who helped bring about the destruction of the Second Temple.

FailedMessiah.com 2008

When the country was purged of these, there sprang up another sort of robbers in Jerusalem, which were called Sicarii, who slew men in the day time, and in the midst of the city; this they did chiefly at the festivals, when they mingled themselves among the multitude, and concealed daggers under their garments, with which they stabbed those that were their enemies; and when any fell down dead, the murderers became a part of those that had indignation against them; by which means they appeared persons of such reputation, that they could by no means be discovered.

The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709

'Sicarii' or 'dagger-men,' of whose bloody doings Josephus tells us.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868