Judeans: Strabo on decline after Moses and banditry (early first century CE)

Ancient authors: Poseidonios (?) and Strabo, Geography 16.2.28, 34-40, 42-46 (link) Comments: Strabo s description of collecting bitumen from the Dead Sea that immediately follows this important ethnographic passage on the origins and customs of the Judeans cites Poseidonios of Apameia (first century BCE) as a source. This, combined with the fact that Strabo s story of [ ]