A.D.70-136

Some historians date the Jewish Diaspora back to AD136, more so than to AD70.

Certainly the Temple was destroyed in AD70, and Jews of Jerusalem were taken as slaves to Rome. The loot from the Temple funded the construction of the Colosseum.

But Jews weren't always disallowed from living in Jerusalem, from that moment on.

And they were still allowed to carry on their 'religion', what was left of it.

Christianity still wasn't completely distinguished from Judaism, as far as Rome was concerned.

In AD115, Jews managed to revolt again, killing 200,000 Romans in Cyrene, and 240,000 in Cyprus (according to Greek-Roman historian Cassius Dio, born AD155).

Then in AD133, the Jews managed to regain control of Jerusalem, including 985 surrounding villages and 50 fortified strongholds. The leader of the revolt was regarded as a Messiah - they even minted coins with the inscription "Year Two to the Freedom of Israel". Hundreds of thousands of Romans were killed.

Emperor Hadrian sent in 12 legions of troops, including troops from Britannia and Egypt. An estimated 580,000 Jews were killed.

This time the city was renamed.

Jews were banned from living there.

Many survivors were sent as slaves to Egypt.

Practising the Jewish religion (what was left of it) was banned all over the Empire.

At that point it became clearer to the Romans that Christianity was distinct from Judaism.

In light of that history, is it possible we try to squeeze too much significance into the AD70 box?

At least I can say this: there's no historical or literary evidence, as far as I know, that early Christians thought the resurrection had happened, or had to have happened, either in AD70, or AD117 or in AD136...

But there's plenty of evidence they still looked forward to it happening, in the future.

And they didn't see any conflict between that and what Jesus said, or what the Apostles had written.