Complex sentence: Though the rabbis presented a defense of the Talmud, a commission of Christian theologians condemned the Talmud to be burned and on June 17,1244, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were set on fire in the streets of Paris.
Split into simpler sentences: Though the rabbis presented a defense of the Talmud, a commission of Christian theologians condemned the Talmud to be burned and on June 17,1244. Twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were set on fire in the streets of Paris.