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To: vladimir998
Sorry, that's Antiquities of the Jews, book 18, chapter 9.
378 posted on 12/18/2006 8:27:32 PM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: vladimir998; Diego1618; Uncle Chip
I found it. He talks about the Jews being driven out of the region around Babylon, and moving to Seleucia. Once in Seleucia [Antiquities, Book 18, chapter 9, paragraph 9]:

Accordingly, they [Greeks and Syrians in Seleucia] fell upon them [the Jews], and slew about fifty thousand of them; nay, the Jews were all destroyed, excepting a few who escaped, either by the compassion which their friends or neighbors afforded them, in order to let them fly away. These retired to Ctesiphon, a Grecian city ...

It sounds like the Jewish population of the area around Babylon was driven out, and then mostly slaughtered.

379 posted on 12/18/2006 8:32:36 PM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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