Lester argues here that the book of Daniel contains a complex but
poetically unified narrative. This can be identified through
certain narrative qualities, including the allusion to Isaiah
throughout, which uniquely contributes to the narrative arc. The
narrative begins with the inauguration of foreign rule over Israel,
and concludes with that rule's end. Each stage of the book's
composition casts that foreign rule in terms ever-more-reminiscent
of Isaiah's depiction of Assyria. That enemy is first conscripted
by God to punish Israel, but then arrogates punitive authority to
itself until ultimately punished in its turn and destroyed. Each
apocalypse in the book of Daniel carries forward, in its own way,
that allusive characterization. Lester thus argues that an allusive
poetics can be investigated as an intentional rhetorical trope in a
work for which the concept of "author" is complex; that a narrative
criticism can incorporate a critical understanding of composition
history. The "Daniel" resulting from this inquiry depicts Daniel's
2nd-century Jewish reader not as suffering punishment for breaking
covenant with God, but as enduring in covenant faithfulness the
last days of the "Assyrian" arrogator's violent excesses. This
narrative problematizes any simplistic narrative conceptions of
biblical Israel as ceaselessly rebellious, lending a unique note to
conversations about suffering and theodicy in the Hebrew Bible, and
about anti-Judaic habits in Christian reading of the Hebrew Bible.
General
| Imprint: |
T. & T. Clark
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies |
| Release date: |
October 2015 |
| Authors: |
G. Brooke Lester
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - With dust jacket
|
| Pages: |
248 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-567-65857-9 |
| Categories: |
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-567-65857-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780567658579 |
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