Reading Daniel as a Text in Theological Hermeneutics

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-227-17364-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

Reihe: James Clarke

An interdisciplinary analysis of the Book of Daniel, showing how the text can be constructively read as a narrative textbook in theological hermeneutics.

Employing such disciplines as historical criticism, literary criticism, narrative theology, and hermeneutics, Reading Daniel as a Text in Theological Hermeneutics seeks to maintain an interdisciplinary approach to the Book of Daniel. Through this approach, the author sets out to understand and interpret the Book of Daniel as a narrative exercise in theological hermeneutics.

Two inherently linked perspectives are utilised in this particular reading of the text: First is the perception that the character of Daniel is the paradigm of the good theological hermeneut; theology and hermeneutics are inseparable and converge in the character of Daniel. Second is the standpoint that the Book of Daniel on the whole should be read as a hermeneutics textbook. Readers are led through a series of theories and exercises meant to be instilled into their theological, intellectual, and practical lives.

Attention to the reader of the text is a constant theme throughout this thesis. The author’s concern is primarily with contemporary readers and their communities, and so greater emphasis is placed on what the Book of Daniel means for contemporary readers than on what it meant in its historical setting. However, sensible consideration is given to the historical readerly community with which contemporary readers find continuity. In the end, readers are left with difficult challenges, a sobering awareness of the volatility of the business of hermeneutics, and serious implications for readers to implement both theologically and hermeneutically.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hebbard, Aaron B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. A Hermeneutic Reading of Daniel
The Historical Continuum of the Danielic Community
Purpose of Daniel
Danielic Hermeneutics
2. Narration in Daniel
The “Tell” of Three Narrators
Conclusion
3. The Introduction to Danielic Hermeneutics
Setting the Sense of Reading
Daniel 1: Introduction to the Narrative
4. The Undergraduate Courses – Danielic Hermeneutics in Theory
Daniel 2: Disclosing Dream and Identity
Daniel 3: The Exit Exam for the Unbending Boys
Daniel 4: Nebuchadnezzar’s Conversion to Yahwism
Daniel 5: Belshazzar, the Lightweight Interpreter
Daniel 6: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Daniel
5. The Graduate Courses – Danielic Hermeneutics in Praxis
Daniel 7: The Court of Heaven Casts Judgment
Daniel 8: Vision, Interpretation, Understanding
Daniel 9: Daniel’s Seventy and Gabriel’s Seventy-Sevens
Daniel 10: Another Angelic Encounter
Daniel 11: Revelation of Details
Daniel 12: Danielism – Survival of the Wisest
6. The Reader as Hermeneut
Reader as Character
Reader as Text
Reader as Hermeneut

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