Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity

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 Jerusa...