Eugene Lane points out some of the problems around the interpretation of this piece of text. [6] Apart from the obvious textual problems, it is difficult to see what kind of relationship (if any) [...] Babylon; thus, communities outside of Jerusalem would have already been established by the end of the 6 th century. However, our evidence for Jewish life in the diaspora communities is sparse; most of [...] Josephus, Ant . XVIII.3.5; the expulsion of both cults is also linked by Tacitus ( A ii.85.5) and Suetonius (E. Mary Smallwood, The Jews Under Roman Rule [Leiden: Brill, 2001], 202.)