Footnote

b For example, the fourth century B.C.E. historian Hecataeus of Abdera is quoted by Josephus in Against Apion, Book I:22, as writing: “The Jews have many fortresses and villages in different parts of the country, but only one fortified city, which has a circumference of fifty stades [about 33,000 feet] and some hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants; they call it Jerusalem.”