The Book of Daniel as Witness to the Pluriform Bible

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 wisd...

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Main Author: Yarchin, William (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2021
In: Biblical theology bulletin
Year: 2021, Volume: 51, Issue: 4, Pages: 215-225
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Azariah / Old Testament / Old Testament / Peshitta / Textual criticism / Apocalypticism
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Apocalyptic
B MT
B literary variants
B Peshitta
B Daniel
B Septuagint
B Text Criticism
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1945-7596
Contains:Enthalten in: Biblical theology bulletin
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/01461079211030084