It is likely that the Jews represented something like a tenth of the whole population of the empire, and in the places where they were most concentrated, in the cities of the eastern provinces, they may have been a quarter or more of the inhabitants. ”
पूरब में ज़्यादातर यहूदी खासकर इन इलाकों में रहते थे: सूरिया, एशिया माइनर, बाबुल और मिस्र ।