Abstract
By the eighteenth century, so-called “continuations” of the works of Josephus appeared in English as the foundation of new histories of the Jews. These texts described Jewish history following the destruction of Jerusalem, a subject that had rarely interested Christians. These continuations, inspired by Jacques Basnage’s History of the Jews (1708), emphasized the miraculous nature of Jewish survival. By anchoring the idea of this miracle in the evolution of social relations and identity, they provided a post-Enlightenment miracle that still reinforced Protestants’ belief in God’s intervention in history. At the same time, these histories likely increased Christian empathy for the experience of contemporary Jews and thus helped lead Christians to an acceptance of the legitimacy of Jewish history after the destruction of Jerusalem.
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