: 185 Middle Ages Īs regards the number of Jews in the Middle Ages, Benjamin of Tudela, about 1170, enumerates altogether 1,049,565 but of these 100,000 are attributed to Persia and India, 100,000 to Arabia, and 300,000 to an undecipherable "Thanaim", which were likely mere guesses with regard to the Eastern Jews, with whom he did not personally encounter. Louis Feldman, previously an active supporter of the figure, now states that he and Baron were mistaken. However, contemporary scholars now accept that Bar Hebraeus based his figure on a census of total Roman citizens, the figure of 6,944,000 being recorded in Eusebius' Chronicon. The figure of seven million within and one million outside the Roman world in the mid-first century became widely accepted, including by Louis Feldman. The 13th-century author Bar Hebraeus gave a figure of 6,944,000 Jews in the Roman world Salo Wittmayer Baron considered the figure convincing. īy the first century, the Jewish community in Babylonia, to which Jews were exiled after the Babylonian conquest as well as after the Bar Kokhba rebellion in 135 CE, already held a speedily growing population of an estimated one million Jews, which increased to an estimated two million between the years 200 CE and 500 CE, both by natural growth and by immigration of more Jews from the Land of Israel, making up about one-sixth of the world Jewish population at that era. Jacobs remarks that this estimate is probably excessive. Adolf Harnack ( Ausbreitung des Christentums, Leipzig, 1902) reckons that there were 1,000,000 Jews in Syria (which included Lebanon) and the areas east of the Euphrates at the time of Nero in 60's CE, and 700,000 in Judea, and he allows for an additional 1,500,000 in other places, thus estimating that there were in the first century 4,200,000 Jews in the world. there were no fewer than 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt, in a total of 8,000,000 inhabitants of these 200,000 lived in Alexandria, whose total population was 500,000. According to Theodor Mommsen, in the first century C.E. In the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135 CE, 580,000 Jews were slain, according to Cassius Dio (lxix. The difficulties of commissariat in the Sinai desert for such a number as 3,000,000 have been pointed out by John William Colenso.
1,100,000 is comparable to the population of the largest cities that existed anywhere in the world before the 19th century, but geographically the Old City of Jerusalem is just a few per cent the size of such cities as ancient Rome, Constantinople, Edo period Tokyo and Han Dynasty Xi'an. These appear (writes Jacobs) to be all the figures accessible for ancient times, and their trustworthiness is a matter of dispute. The majority of the 1,197,000 would not have been residents of the city, but rather were visiting for the festival. However, Josephus also qualifies this count, noting that Jerusalem was besieged during the Passover. Tacitus declares that Jerusalem at its fall contained 600,000 persons Josephus, that there were as many as 1,100,000 slain in the destruction of Jerusalem in CE 70, along with 97,000 who were sold as slaves. The number of exiles who returned from Babylon is given at 42,360. The Census of David is said to have recorded 1,300,000 males over twenty years of age, which would imply a population of over 5,000,000. This would imply a population of about 3,000,000.
between twenty and sixty years of age among the Levites the relevant number is those obligated in temple service (males between twenty and fifty years of age). For non-Levites, this represents men fit for military service, i.e. Altogether, including Levites, the number given is 611,730.
The Torah contains a number of statements as to the number of (adult, male) Hebrews that left Egypt, the descendants of the seventy sons and grandsons of Jacob who took up their residence in that country. If (slot) slot.addService(googletag.The Flight of the Prisoners by James Tissot showing Babylonian captivity, deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon and the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon's Temple, 586 BCE.
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