Daniel Kirk has been running an excellent series of posts on Mark 13—excellent in the sense that I agree with pretty much everything he says. For convenience I have listed his posts here, starting with the most recent:

• Narrative & Theological Ramifications of Mark 13 as AD 70
• Objections to Mark 13 as AD70: Son of Man
• Objections to Mark 13 as AD 70: Cosmic Imagery
• Mark 13 & the Fall of Jerusalem

I find this encouraging. The sooner this sort of perspective becomes consolidated, the sooner we can get on with exploring the evangelical implications of such a hermeneutical shift.

My challenge to him now would be: Can you do something similar with Paul? Or does Paul somehow escape the narrative confines of history? Here would be a place to start: Resurrection, rapture and relevance.