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2024-11-24 12:12:30 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 85F9C4AAA0E112514B3DDDBBB58F3E243C35D65E32F191F6E9657F7DFD53EE25
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Genetic studies indicate that European Jews have significant ancestry from the Levant: 1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32470400/ 2. https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006644 3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36455558/ Judea was heavily depopulated after the Bar Kochba Revolt due to numbers of Jews killed and sold into slavery: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-archaeology/article/cassius-dios-figures-for-the-demographic-consequences-of-the-bar-kokhba-war-exaggeration-or-reliable-account/2D9838573C499EFC816F5E1569E63B58 The land was heavily repopulated with non-Judean Levantines.
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