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• And so, we should expect that any existing copies of the Hebrew Bible or the Aramaic Peshitta New Testament from the first century, in Israel, would have been set on fire and destroyed by the Romans. We should not expect anything to survive.
• But God’s Hand is always at work in human history. The Hebrew Bible survived. Copies were spread far and wide across the Jewish world, and copies were safely protected in the caves around the Dead Sea, near Qumran, to become what we now call the Dead Sea Scrolls.