text: 2 Baruch is a Jewish pseudepigraphical text thought to have been written in the late 1st century CE or early 2nd century CE , after the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE .
simplified: 2 Baruch is a text that was written in the late first century , or the early second century CE . It was probably written after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem , in 70 CE , and before the second Roman-Jewish War , 132-135 CE .