its career as a world-religion.… The destruction of Jerusalem gave other cities decisive parts in the life of the Church, especially Rome. The Jewish catastrophe of A.D. 70 probably [was] the next most crucial event for Christianity after the Resurrection experiences.”15 Frend writes that: the fall of Jerusalem left a permanent mark on the development of the Church. First and foremost, it meant a violent shift of centre, in which the Church was gradually to lose Palestine, the homeland of Jesus and