Part 1 — Note to Chapter III. on the Number Slain in the Jewish Wars.
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The numbers of those slain in the Jewish wars, as reported by Josephus, are as under.
At Cæsarea 20,000 At Mt. Gerizim 11,600
” Scythopolis 13,000 ” Jotapata 40,000
” Alexandria 50,000 ” Gamala 15,000
” Damascus 10,000 ” Gadara 15,000
” Ascalon (3 massacres) 20,000 ” Jerusalem 1,100,000
”Joppa 15,000
At other places there were smaller totals, amounting altogether to upwards of 100,000, and making the entire sum of slain something less than a million and a half. But, as is elsewhere intimated (Appendix I.), Josephus’s statements must be received with caution. The large population found in Palestine in Adrian’s reign is not easily reconcilable with it. Lightfoot’s opinion seems the more probable one. Notwithstanding the great carnage, he says, ‘Tantum abfuit gens a totali et consummatâ deletione, ut undique adhuc restaret innumera multitudo, quæ se pacate Romano nutui dedidisset, et pace sedibus suis quiete frueretur. Ita ut Templum et Metropolim quidem desiderares, verum terram habitatoribus repletam, compositum Synedrii, Synagogarum, Populi statum illico cerneres.’—Lightfoot, vol. xi. 468.