According to the ancient Jewish historian Josephus, the next most dense Jewish population after the Land of Israel and Babylonia was in Syria, particularly in Antioch, and Damascus, where 10,000 to 18,000 Jews were massacred during the great insurrection.
据古代犹太历史学家弗拉維奧·約瑟夫斯，在以色列地和巴比伦之后的一个最密集的犹太人人口居住地是叙利亚，特别是在安提阿和大马士革，在大叛乱期间，有10,000到18 000犹太人被屠杀。