More for the Jesus Freaks to Whine About

[Minimalist]

Archaeologically based population studies on Jerusalem.... instead of that bible horseshit.

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily...ign=E6B509

At its height, the population of Jerusalem at the end of the eighth century B.C.E., according to Geva, was 8,000.

It was not until the late Hellenistic (Hasmonean) period (150–50 B.C.E.) that Jerusalem flourished again, just as it had at the time before the Babylonian destruction. Geva’s population estimate: 8,000.

The city more than doubles in size during Herod the Great's reign to 20,000 for a simple reason.  Water.  Herod had Roman engineers construct aqueducts.  Before that, the water supply of the city was reliant on the Gihon Spring and clearly that could not support any sort of mass population.  Poor jesus freaks.  Reality once again intrudes on their silly fables.

[Minimalist]

66 The entire group numbered 42,360, 67 not counting their 7,337 male and female servants. They also had 245 male and female singers.

Nehemiah 7

Where they all died of thirst before they could starve to death!