To demonstrate a proper understanding of Daniel 3, we realize that it is a story of faith-over-syncretism that leads God’s people, both past and present to have obedient faith in God. The court tale of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego was meant to challenge exilic and post-exilic…
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The often fragmentary Aramaic texts preserved by the Qumran community represent a large collection of well edited texts, whose publications have triggered numerous contributions that have brought a significantly clearer understanding of them. Little attention, however, has been …
The Aramaic tales in Daniel 2–6 present what it means to live as a faithful Jew in the Babylonian and Persian empires. There is the clear ideology that the God of the Jews is sovereign over all human kingdoms. Thus, the Aramaic tales in Daniel claim that the empire is a present …
This dissertation investigates the use of biblical interpretation in the Book of Daniel. It demonstrates the spectrum in which Daniel uses older scriptural texts such as Genesis and Ezekiel in order to accomplish the theological concord with the earlier scriptural traditions of …
ABSTRACT Traditional Christian theological interpretations view the Suffering Servant of Isaiah as an individual, messianic figure, with an inherent eschatological purpose. This traditional view proposes that the Suffering Servant of Isaiah pointed to a future messianic end of t…
The stories in the Book of Daniel always have been a source of interest and fascination to readers of all ages, having plots, characters, and themes which continue to resonate in modern times. Among the most familiar of these narratives is the handwriting or, the wall (Daniel 5)…
In the year 167 BCE, Jews in Palestine began to face religious persecution under the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes. They faced the choice of assimilation or death. In this crisis, no consensus existed among Jews as to the proper response to the persecution. Four texts emerged f…
Theodotion-Daniel (Θ-Dan) is the name generally given to one of the Greek forms of the Book of Daniel. Though this version is attributed to Theodotion, the second century A.D. reviser of the Greek Old Testament, Theodotion-Daniel must antedate the work of this revision. Some tim…
The following project analyses the construction of the genre paradigm for a category of texts called apocalypses. By dismantling and reassembling the working paradigm, certain logical problems are disclosed: namely, the problems of the hierarchization of structural elements, and…