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The Roman destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 was a watershed event in the religious, political, and social life of first-century Jews. This book explores the reaction to this event found in Jewish apocalypses and related literature preserved among the Pseudepigrapha (4 Ezra, 2 Baruch, 3 Baruch, 4 Baruch, Sibylline Oracles 4 and 5, and the Apocalypse of Abraham). While keeping the historical context of their composition in mind, the author analyzes the texts with a view to answering the following questions: What do these texts tell us about Jewish attitudes toward the Roman Empire? How did Jews understand the situation in post-70 Judea through the lens of Israel’s past, especially the Babylonian sack of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.?

Destruction --- --Jérusalem --- --70 --- --Temple --- --La œBible --- --Apocalypse --- --Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) --- Apocalyptic literature --- Oracles, Greek --- In the Bible --- History and criticism --- Bible --- Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch --- Greek Apocalypse of Baruch --- Paralipomena Jeremiae --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Jerusalem --- History --- Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) --- Jews --- Oracula Sibyllina. --- Oracles, Greek. --- Apokalyptik. --- Jüdische Literatur. --- Pseudepigraphie. --- Judentum. --- In the Bible. --- History and criticism. --- Zerstörung (70). --- Bible. --- Apokryphen. --- Pseudepigraphen. --- Apokryphe Apokalypsen. --- Apokryphen --- Pseudepigraphen --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Jerusalem. --- 296*31 --- Greek oracles --- Cults --- Judaism --- 296*31 Joodse apocriefen en pseudepigrafen --- Joodse apocriefen en pseudepigrafen --- Siege of Jerusalem (70) --- Paraleipomena Jeremiou --- Baruch, Rest of the words of --- Chronicles of Jeremiah --- Paralipomena of Jeremiah --- Rest of the words of Baruch --- 4 Baruch --- Fourth Baruch --- Apocalypse of Baruch (Greek) --- 3 Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- Third Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- Apocalypsis Baruchi Graece --- Greek Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- Apocalypse of Baruch (Syriac) --- 2nd Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- 2 Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- Second Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- II Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- Syriac Baruch (Apocryphal book) --- Siege, 70 A.D. --- Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) - In the Bible --- Apocalyptic literature - History and criticism --- Jerusalem - History - Siege, 70 A.D