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• These events have a direct bearing on the Hebrew and Aramaic scrolls and manuscripts we would expect to find in Israel, in the first and second centuries A.D. Not only did the Romans kill hundreds of thousands of people, of Jews, but they also destroyed everything related to the Jews that they could find. Emperors like Nero also destroyed everything related to Christians too. As the Romans wreaked their campaign of terror across Israel, they burned villages, destroyed yeshivas (religious schools), killed men, women and children, and burned all Hebrew and Aramaic scrolls and manuscripts they could find. Nothing was spared.