The Story Retold : After AD 70

Chapter TWO LIKE BIRDS HOVERING OVERHEAD:
THE FAITHFULNESS OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL
(ii) The Continuous Story
(d) The Story Retold: After AD 70

It might have appeared that with the destruction of the Temple in AD 70 the great narrative had come to an end. Some of the most important retellings of the story, however, were written in the decades that followed. We focus here on the historian Josephus and on the two ‘apocalyptic’ works known as 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch...