I wonder if the author read 64,000 some place and was too stupid to realize that meant thousand not million.
Most estimates put the entire total population of the Roman empire at just over 70 million. If over 90% of them were jews, and the other 10% managed to kill off the 90, frankly at that point I would say that's on the 90 for being so fucking terrible at defending themselves. If you lose a nine to one fight, it was your time. (And I'm pretty sure the Israelites in the Bible actually did lose some 9 to 1 fights because they were being sinful and God was bringing them low. It was literally their time.)
400 is symbolic in the Bible. Hebrew uses the letter tav for the number 400, but it also symbolizes completion or perfection. The meaning of the passage is that there was a complete destruction of the synagogues, teachers, and students in the last stronghold (Betar) in Judea. The passage confirms that God allowed it, bc He predicted it through Moses ("all the curses not mentioned in this book").
I wonder if the author read 64,000 some place and was too stupid to realize that meant thousand not million.
Most estimates put the entire total population of the Roman empire at just over 70 million. If over 90% of them were jews, and the other 10% managed to kill off the 90, frankly at that point I would say that's on the 90 for being so fucking terrible at defending themselves. If you lose a nine to one fight, it was your time. (And I'm pretty sure the Israelites in the Bible actually did lose some 9 to 1 fights because they were being sinful and God was bringing them low. It was literally their time.)
400 is symbolic in the Bible. Hebrew uses the letter tav for the number 400, but it also symbolizes completion or perfection. The meaning of the passage is that there was a complete destruction of the synagogues, teachers, and students in the last stronghold (Betar) in Judea. The passage confirms that God allowed it, bc He predicted it through Moses ("all the curses not mentioned in this book").