The Book of Daniel as Witness to the Pluriform Bible
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21453285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Yarchin (William Yarchin, Ph.D. (Claremont) is the Dean’s Endowed Professor of Biblical Studies in the School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University, 701 East Foothill Boulevard, Azusa, CA 91702-2606. He is the author of “What Is the Translated Hebrew Bible? A Paratextual Reflection” in Hebrew Studies, “Communicating Divine Ineffability through Paratext: How the Bible Means More than Its Words” in Journal of Religious & Theological Information, and History of Biblical Interpretation: A Reader. He can be reached..., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 215-225 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biblical Theology Bulletin Journal of Bible and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0146-1079 • E-ISSN: 1945-7596 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01461079211030084 |
| OpenAlex | W3208547896 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
The Book of Daniel is an anthology that comes to us in a variety of compositional configurations distinguished in their organization by genre and chronology. Daniel’s varied compositional configurations—MT, Old Greek, Theodotion, Syriac—characterize the book as a literary exercise in divinatory wisdom that can point readers in different directions. The wisdom promoted in MT Daniel is mantic in that it is concerned with how knowledge of God’s effective reality in history can be divined (apocalyptic). In other forms of Daniel, the wisdom recommended for ancient Jews is mundane in that it is concerned with how they may conduct themselves with integrity within their own communities and relative to others (wisdom). I argue that, in the case of Daniel, the meaning of this biblical book is indicated not only in its semantic content but also through the various compositional configurations given to it during antiquity. This finding is consistent with a need for the sort of textually and compositionally pluriform Bible edition articulated by James Sanders
Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Variety (cybernetics) · Witness · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy
History of Classical Scholarship
A Blessed Rage for OrderApocalypticism, Esoteric Revelation, and the Cultural Politics of Knowledge in the Hellenistic Age
Before the Bible
The Book of Daniel and the Apocryphal Daniel Literature
The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East. With a Translation of an Assyrian Dream-Book
Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies
The Narrative Frame of Daniel
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |