Bernie Hod­kin is a Ph.D. stu­dent in Ancient Judaism at the Jew­ish The­o­log­i­cal Sem­i­nary. Her areas of inter­est include Jew­ish reac­tions to Sec­ond Tem­ple destruc­tion and Roman impe­ri­al­ism, apoc­a­lyp­tic lit­er­a­ture, and the rela­tion­ship between Pales­tin­ian and Baby­lon­ian rab­binic sources.