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Before tracing the long aftermath of the two Judean rebellions for Jews and Judaism, let us turn our gaze to Jewish life in the Roman world outside of the land of Judea in the first century or so of the Common Era.

Jews may have been concentrated in Judea and environs, but there were thriving Jewish populations in the diaspora as well, the most vibrant in Alexandria and Babylonia.²⁹ Jews had also settled across the Mediterranean, and show up in numbers in Rome, Cyprus, the Levant and elsewhere, even at far west as modern-day Spain.³⁰