Identifies and contextualises a new work within the Animal Apocalypse, dated to the dawn of the First Jewish Revolt.
This book identifies a new apocalyptic workthe Apocalypse of the Birdscontained in the Animal Apocalypse (1 Enoch 85-90), and argues that it is born of the chaotic Jewish-Christian world of the first-century CE. Through close analysis of texts and manuscripts in Geez, Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew, alongside historical and numismatic evidence, the book situates the Apocalypse of the Birds alongside literature and historiography of the first-century CE. It argues that the Apocalypse of the Birds belongs to the heady early days of the First Jewish Revolt, and represents crucial evidence for the early optimism of the revolutionaries, the dynamic and progressive evolution of the Animal Apocalyptic tradition, and the blurred and porous boundaries between Jew and Jesus-follower in the first-century CE.
Elena Dugan is an Associate of Harvard University's Department of Classics, and an instructor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Phillips Academy Andover. She earned her doctorate in 2021 at Princeton University, where she received the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Fellowship, the Harold W. Dodds Honorific Fellowship, and the Dean's Completion Fellowship, as well as department and university-wide awards for teaching. Her work has been published in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Jewish Studies Quarterly, and the Classical World.
