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The Apocalypse of the Birds

The Apocalypse of the Birds

1 Enoch and the Jewish Revolt Against Rome

by Elena L. Dugan
Hardback
Publication Date: 03/07/2023

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This book identifies a new apocalyptic work--the Apocalypse of the Birds--contained 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 Ge'ez, 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.

ISBN:
9781399508650
9781399508650
Category:
History of religion
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
03-07-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
233.93x155.96mm

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