Competing for Honor : : A Social-Scientific Reading of Daniel 1-6 / / Shane Kirkpatrick.
Using social-scientific criticism, this work presents a reading of Daniel 1-6 as literature of resistance. The characters and episodes of these tales are read against a backdrop of social competition for the cultural value of honor. Each of the tales of Daniel 1-6 is analyzed, revealing a comparison...
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| Superior document: | Biblical Interpretation Series ; 74 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
| Series: | Biblical Interpretation Series ;
74. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Other title: | A Social-Scientific Reading of Daniel 1-6 |
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| Summary: | Using social-scientific criticism, this work presents a reading of Daniel 1-6 as literature of resistance. The characters and episodes of these tales are read against a backdrop of social competition for the cultural value of honor. Each of the tales of Daniel 1-6 is analyzed, revealing a comparison that is sustained throughout the compilation and that pits the Judean tradition in competition with a dominant foreign tradition. The dynamics of comparison and competition are explored in each tale with the help of social-scientific models depicting honor and exploring the related dynamics of purity, patronage, virtue, limited good, and envy. This work is particularly useful for scholars and students interested in social-scientific criticism and the value of that methodology for Hebrew Bible study, as well as for those interested in Daniel, honor and shame, ancient rhetoric, and cultural resistance in the postexilic period. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1280868414 9786610868414 1429453559 9047407911 1433707764 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Shane Kirkpatrick. |