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• The next two lessons, A.D. 70 - The End of An Age and The Bar Kochba Revolt, discuss these events in more detail. They are fundamental to understanding many aspects of the interaction between Hebrew and Aramaic, but also understanding why we should expect very few Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts from the first and second centuries A.D. from the Roman Empire. Quite simply, the Romans systematically destroyed everything they could find related to the Jews or Jewish writings.
• And so, just like the Greek Empire before it, we have seen that the Roman Empire would come against the Land of Israel, to rule over it, and ultimately to destroy the Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70, and soon thereafter to destroy Jerusalem utterly at the time of the Bar Kochba Revolt.