Re: The Early Christians: In Their Own Words

No definite year marks the boundary between the earliest years of the 
church and the apostles, and the following time of transition dealt with
in 
this book. The extinction of the first Jewish-Christian church at the time

of the destruction of Jerusalem and Judea in A.D. 70 gives us an 
approximate date. James, the trusted leader of congregations in Jerusalem 
for over thirty years, and its two most fruitful apostles Paul and Peter, 
had suffered martyrdom and death a few years before. The sources in this 
book speak of the time following the death of James, the end of Jerusalem,

and the martyrdom of Paul and Peter.