Growing Religious Threat

[Nasruddin]

20. Just remember

Ok, maybe you are not aware of this, but there were several rebellions in Judea & the Romans' feelings were ... hurt.
That was not a constructive situation if the Romans were on the winning side, which they were. The results were a LOT of destruction, the replacement of Jerusalem with a mostly-new settlement, & the dispersal of much of the population of Judea & probably other parts of Palestine.

It's hard to inventory what exactly was lost, but it is reasonable to expect some holes in the record.

2nd, the Romans eventually had their own comeuppance from the Goths, Vandals, and ... themselves. We lost a ton of stuff from the ancient world - most of the written record. We do know a little about this, because fragments out of large volumes are preserved as quotes or ... snippy snippets.