Paul’s eschatological teaching about the approaching Endtime represents traditions that, he himself claims, go back to Jesus and to his earliest followers. And there are so many places in his letters where he does describe events at the End: in 1 Thessalonians 4, on Jesus’ second coming and the Endtime resurrection of the dead; in 1 Corinthians 15, on the same themes; in Romans chapter 8 (cosmic redemption), or chapter 11 (the salvation of all humanity, both Israel and the nations), or chapter 15 (on all these themes). Yet he nowhere tells any of his communities that, according to “the word of the Lord,” the destruction of the temple would signal the Kingdom’s approach. - Paula Fredricksen