Aramaic Daniel A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1-7

• Main Author: Suchard, Benjamin D. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2022
• Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Judaism: sacred texts; Aramaic; apocalypse; apocalyptic; Belshazzar; bible; biblical; burning; court; criticism; danielic; fire; furnace; maccabean; Nabonidus; Nebuchadnezzar; philology; son of man; tales
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The first half of the book of Daniel contains world-famous stories like the Writing on the Wall. These stories have mostly been transmitted in Aramaic, not Hebrew, as has the influential apocalypse of Daniel 7. This Aramaic corpus shows clear signs of multiple authorship. Which different textual lay...