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In this volume, Carson Bay focuses on an important but neglected
work of Late Antiquity: Pseudo-Hegesippus' On the Destruction of
Jerusalem (De Excidio Hierosolymitano), a Latin history of later
Second Temple Judaism written during the fourth century CE. Bay
explores the presence of so many Old Testament figures in a work
that recounts the Roman-Jewish War (66-73 CE) and the destruction
of Jerusalem in 70 CE. By applying the lens of Roman exemplarity to
Pseudo-Hegesippus, he elucidates new facets of Biblical reception,
history-writing, and anti-Judaism in a text from the formative
first century of Christian Empire. The author also offers new
insights into the Christian historiographical imagination and how
Biblical heroes and Classical culture helped Christians to write
anti-Jewish history. Revealing novel aspects of the influence of
the Classical literary tradition on early Christian texts, this
book also newly questions the age-old distinction between the
Christian and the Classical (or 'pagan') in the ancient
Mediterranean world.
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