And I have to grant the possibility.
But it is equally possible that it was in the aftermath of the 3d revolt that the Romans had really had their fill of the jews. Marcion was intensely anti-semitic. That would have been popular attitude in the 140s AD.
Further, it is at that time that we start to hear about xtian apologies and Roman writers, i.e. Lucian of Samosata, start to write against them.
We don't get that in the aftermath of 70. What we get are Pliny and his xtians singing a hymn to Christus "as if to a god." He also reports that these same "xtians" cursed christ and sacrificed to the emperor.
This is not the story that xtians were putting forward some time later.
But it is equally possible that it was in the aftermath of the 3d revolt that the Romans had really had their fill of the jews. Marcion was intensely anti-semitic. That would have been popular attitude in the 140s AD.
Further, it is at that time that we start to hear about xtian apologies and Roman writers, i.e. Lucian of Samosata, start to write against them.
We don't get that in the aftermath of 70. What we get are Pliny and his xtians singing a hymn to Christus "as if to a god." He also reports that these same "xtians" cursed christ and sacrificed to the emperor.
This is not the story that xtians were putting forward some time later.
