(In the time of David, Broshi concludes, fewer than 2000 people lived in Jerusalem.).
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Broshi's work is thorough and careful
but inevitably involves a good deal of guesswork, guesswork being a necessary feature of much urban history.
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Magen Broshi, an Israeli archaeologist who has written extensively on these matters,
thinks that at the time of the city's destruction it could have held no more than 80,000 people.