Sources that advocate that the besieging forces numbered 16,000 to 25,000 men (6,000 to 10,000 legionnaires and 10,000 to 15,000 slave workers) include Moshe Pearlman, The Zealots of Masada (Herzlia: Palphot; repr. London: Hamilton, 1969; New York: Scribner, 1967), p. 13; and Louis H. Feldman, Josephus and Modern Scholarship (1937–1980) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1984), p. 776.