Sicarii (Latin plural of Sicarius "dagger-men" or later contract-killer, Hebrew ????????) is a term applied, in the decades immediately preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, (probably) to an extremist splinter groupNachman Ben-Yehuda, The Masada Myth: Scholar presents evidence that the heroes of the Jewish Great Revolt were not heroes at all., The Bible and Interpretation of the Jewish Zealots, who attempted to expel the Romans and their partisans from Judea using concealed daggers (sicae).