Quanto era grande Gerusalemme ai tempi di Gesù? Una popolazione di circa 20.000-40.000 abitanti

Jerusalem in Jesus’s day was a small city, home to perhaps 20,000 to 40,000 people, as archaeologists reckon from its walls and houses. Inside the walls it covered about 230 acres (93 hectares), close to the size of today’s Old City. At Passover, pilgrims may have numbered more than twice the residents, though not the millions Josephus reported. It was a small city, and a whole people came up to it. Three times a year the Law called the men…