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Human and the Divine in History

Herodotus and the Book of Daniel

Human and the Divine in History

Herodotus and the Book of Daniel

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£170.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567082138
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 01/06/2004
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
The Human and the Divine in History investigates the possibility that the author of Daniel knew and drew upon the Histories of Herodotus. Daniel uses and develops Herodotean concepts such as the succession of world empires, dynastic dreams, and the focus on both human and divine cauration in explaining historical events. A comparative reading of these two texts illuminates DanielGCOs theology of history, showing it to be neither as exclusively eschatological nor as sectarian as is often supposed. Rather, it is specifically the end of exileGCounderstood as foreign dominationGCothat Daniel envisions for the entire Jewish people.
Introduction; 1: Herodotus And Biblical Studies; 2: Daniel And Classical Studies; 3: The Human In History; 4: The Divine In History; 5: Daniel's Theology Of History; Appendix: The Text Of Daniel 11:2B; Index

Paul V. Niskanen

Paul Niskanen is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Old Testament Abstracts: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly/ Vol. 29, 2006--Sanford Lakoff

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