Human and the Divine in History: Herodotus and the Book of Daniel by Niskanen, Paul V.

Human and the Divine in History: Herodotus and the Book of Daniel (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780567082138)

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Human and the Divine in History: Herodotus and the Book of Daniel by Niskanen, Paul V.

Human and the Divine in History: Herodotus and the Book of Daniel

$230.00
Human and the Divine in History: Herodotus and the Book of Daniel by Niskanen, Paul V.

Human and the Divine in History: Herodotus and the Book of Daniel

$230.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 Daniel's 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 exile-understood as foreign domination-that Daniel envisions for the entire Jewish people.

Author: Paul V. Niskanen
ISBN-10: 056708213X
ISBN-13: 9780567082138
Publisher: T&T Clark
Language: English
Published: 06/22/2004
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.54h x 6.44w x 0.69d
By Paul V. Niskanen
By Paul V. Niskanen
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Paul Niskanen is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

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