Biography of a Dream : : A Reception-Historical Study of the Fourth Beast in Daniel 7 / / Jonathan Redding.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Redding, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)

The biblical apocalyptic books of Daniel and Revelation are, for better or worse, polarizing. Interpreters have long read and searched these books for clues about how their worlds will “end,” which each new interpreter promising to have “unlocked” how Daniel and Revelation work together to uncover a divine plan for prophetic fulfillment. Redding uses the Vision of the Fourth Beast from Daniel 7 as a case study to consider how interpretations of texts take on lives of their own, eventually wedding interpretation with text and prompting the question: what even is a text? Is it what is on the page, something interpreters put there, or a combination of both? Starting with the literature of the Levant, this work traces the use of motifs, images, and themes through Daniel, Revelation, and into pre-Enlightenment Christian thinkers to consider hermeneutical trajectories that shaped (and continue to shape) how modern readers engage biblical apocalyptic literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Wirkungsgeschichte as a Reception Historical -- Chapter Two. Daniel 7 as a Wirkungsgeschichte Case Study -- Chapter Three. Reading Daniel 2 -- Chapter Four. Cultural Horizons within Levant Literature -- Chapter Five. Consequences of Daniel 7 in the Book of Revelation -- Chapter Six. The Fourth Beast in Christian Traditions -- Chapter Seven. Conclusions for Further Study -- Bibliography -- Index