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Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel
Contributor(s)
Perrin, Andrew (editor)
Stuckenbruck, Loren T. (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
The four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under empire (the present), in view of ancestral traditions and cultural heritage (the past), and inspired outlooks assuring hope, deliverance, and restoration (the future). Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel includes thirteen essays that explore the reach and redeployment of the motif in classical and ancient Near Eastern writings, Jewish and Christian scriptures, texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, depictions in European architecture and cartography, as well as patristic, rabbinic, Islamic, and African writings from antiquity through the Mediaeval eras. Readership: Advanced students and scholars of the textual formation, apocalyptic theology, and historiographies of the book of Daniel and its diverse reception by writers and communities.
Keywords
ReligionDOI
10.1163/9789004443280ISBN
9789004443280, 9789004442795, 9789004443280Publisher
BrillPublisher website
https://brill.com/Publication date and place
2020Imprint
BRILLSeries
Themes in Biblical Narrative, 28Classification
New Testaments