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I checked it out. It was just a wee bit smaller than Los Angeles.
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There was just a small contingency in Jerusalem. They were stationed in Syria.. and they were joined by foreign garrisons from the Roman empire.
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10-12 acers and a thousand people.
Ancient Jerusalem: The Village, the Town, the City
Ancient Jerusalem made such an enormous impact on Western civilization that it’s hard to fathom how small its population really was.
People also lived outside the walls, so the urban region itself would have been higher.
Wasn't too safe outside the walls.. it was bandit territory.
All cties had suburbs then, and most were not walled in that region, in any case. Sometimes the burbs had more people than the cities themselves.
Remember the story about the eye of the needle? The large gate was closed at dusk. If pack animals arrived after dark they had to be unloaded because they couldn't get through the small doors that could be opened after dark.
Which means nothing. Cities grow beyond their walls, it's inevitable, and a lot of workers and poor people couldn't afford rents inside the walls. Look at London, Paris, and oh, about a zillion other cities and towns of all sizes around the world for that fact.
The area around Jerusalem is arid and stoney. Do you have evidence of a population outside the walls or is this assumption?
People also lived outside the walls, so the urban region itself would have been higher.
Do you have any evidence there wasn't? I never heard of any ancient city that didn't have suburbs.
The area around Jerusalem is arid and stoney. Do you have evidence of a population outside the walls or is this assumption?
In Solomon's day the hills were covered in forests.
Nope. They burned dried dung for fuel.
Dung – Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology
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They burned dung nearly everywhere, even in Germany and England. Solomon's wealth came from selling wood to Egypt.
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DudleySmith I stand corrected.
Trees in Ancient Israel, Way of Life Literature
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Exaggeration is the norm. The population of Palestine never exceeded 800,000.Even today, Jerusalem is not that big geographically, but I suspect in the first century its population was more than a few hundred. The Great Revolt there claimed hundreds of thousand of lives. Tacitus estimated the casualties from this clash at 600,000 (Histories V, 13). Josephus estimated them at 1.1 million (Wars 6.9.3). Some current estimates determine the casualties to be at more than 1.3 million, an estimate that includes civilians such as moderate Jews visiting the city to celebrate Passover.
The casualties included Romans, too, but a couple hundred Jewish soldiers could not have killed a million Roman soldiers.
Because of Israel’s sin and idolatry, God closed the heavens and the land became a desolation.DudleySmith I stand corrected.
Trees in Ancient Israel, Way of Life Literature
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