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What if Nero, Emperor of the Roman Empire, had died in 64 AD, during the Great Fire that had engulfed so much of the City of Rome?

Would this spare the Apostle Peter from being crucified in the wake of the fire?

Who was in line to inherit the mantle of Emperor, with Nero's abrupt departure from the mortal realm? Who might have seized the mantle?

And what - if anything - would this mean for the people of Judaea and for Rome's neighbors?
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