Rabbi Joshua told one of these people that bodily resurrection occurs via the almond-shaped luz bone. In the Talmud, these people include a ghost who inspires his nephew to write the Targum Onkelos and the convert ancestor of Rabbi Meir (“meh-EER”). After arriving in a coffin, Yochanan ben Zakkai (“YO-ha-non ben za-KYE”) prophesied that his host would become one of these people and requested him to “give me Yavneh and its sages.” One of these people indirectly names the standard system of niqqud (“nee-KOOD”) diacritics, since a city (*) named for him was home to scribes who used stringent error detection methods to create the Masoretic Text. The phrase “may his bones be crushed” follows Talmudic mentions of one of these people who executed the Ten Martyrs. Jews may avoid walking under a structure named for one of them that features a relief of a captured menorah. For 10 points, name these rulers whose forces suppressed the Bar Kokhba revolt and destroyed the Second Temple. ■END■
ANSWER: Roman emperors [or emperors of Rome; or caesars until “Caesarea” is read; or princeps; prompt on emperors or synonyms of ruler, but reject “kings” or “dictators”; prompt on Romans or gentiles or non-Jews; prompt on Roman generals] (In the Talmud, Onkelos is Titus’s nephew and Nero converted to Judaism. The Masoretes invented the Tiberian system of vocalization in the city of Tiberias.)
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