Timeline for What was the world population around 970 BC? Does it fit the biblical narrative?
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| Jul 25, 2023 at 11:44 | comment | added | Jos | A creationist site proving creationism as a fact. Why am I not surprised? | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 18:54 | comment | added | Boaz | Archeological evidence alone refutes any chance such numbers were even remotely possible. Where are the dwellings, cities and villages, of these millions of people? The land of Israel is very small and a large portion of it is an inhospitable dessert. It’s also been excavated for around 200 years. For comparison, the population of Egypt at the time is roughly estimated at about 4 million, and that’s a global superpower even though it was in relative decline. | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 15:38 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 31, 2020 at 2:03 | comment | added | Greg | An agricultural or nomadic population of 2 million doesn't have 1.3 million "able-bodied men who could handle a sword". You are at least an order of magnitude off, even if we accept the 2 million (which also seems rather inflated) | |
| Sep 11, 2014 at 18:09 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2014 at 7:12 | comment | added | Michael | That site assumes that biblical account of history is accurate, therefore the 2 million. | |
| May 30, 2012 at 13:08 | comment | added | jfrankcarr | The world population estimates of the time period would suggest that an adult male population of 800K in Palestine is a plausible number. That said, numbers in the Bible have been mistranslated at times so that's why I'd suggest the hermeneutics site to probe that aspect. | |
| May 30, 2012 at 12:17 | history | answered | Jader Dias | CC BY-SA 3.0 |