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From: "Isaac Fried" <[email protected]>
To: "Yigal Levin" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] cognate alphabet
Some relevant mathematics.
Assume that at the end of the exodus out of Egypt some 50,000
Israelites entered their promised land. Assume, conservatively, that
they had a rate of growth of 1/2% per annum.
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This is not "conservative".
Unless there is more food or the initial population accretes outsiders,
there is no reason it should grow.
Pre-modern populations were entirely dependent on food, wars and epidemics.
A.
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They lived upon their
land for some 800 years until the destruction of the first temple,
and the ensuing deportation into exile. At that time there should
have been in the land of Israel some 50,000(1.005)^800= 2,700,000
Hebrew speakers, or am I wrong.
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And how much is the surface fit for agricultural use?
How do you feed those numbers?
Arnaud Fournet
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