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The term Israel and Judah are used interchangeably at times after the Exile.

Judah and Benjamin were Israelites.

remember that even 100,000 IS a vast number and definitely so in ancient times

Not against the world population claimed for those ancient times. Also, the population of Israel extrapolated form the number of fighting men in the Bible would have been several million. Many would have been killed by the Assyrians, but they had a couple of centuries to reclaim their numbers.

The Jews of the world number 24 MILLION AT LEAST

The last numbers I saw for present day Jews were about 4 or 5 million, this being acknowledged by Jews. Where did you get yours?

459 posted on 08/20/2004 10:33:59 AM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)

To: William Terrell

Actually, BOTH of us are wrong: from here THe number of Jews in the world is 14 million

461 posted on 08/20/2004 10:36:50 AM PDT by Cronos (W2K4)

To: William Terrell; All

the Jewish Virtual Library lists the Jewish population of the world in the year 2003 as 13,296,100

heres the link http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/jewpop2.html

479 posted on 08/20/2004 1:55:19 PM PDT by priceofreedom (On A Roadmap To Hell)

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