TY  - BOOK
AU  - Redding,Jonathan
TI  - Biography of a Dream: A Reception-Historical Study of the Fourth Beast in Daniel 7 
T2  - Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts
SN  - 9781463242435
AV  - BS1556 .R38 2021
U1  - 224/.5015 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Apocalyptic literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Bible
KW  - Religion
KW  - Study/Old Testament
KW  - RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Wirkungsgeschichte as a Reception Historical --; Chapter Two. Daniel 7 as a Wirkungsgeschichte Case Study --; Chapter Three. Reading Daniel 2 --; Chapter Four. Cultural Horizons within Levant Literature --; Chapter Five. Consequences of Daniel 7 in the Book of Revelation --; Chapter Six. The Fourth Beast in Christian Traditions --; Chapter Seven. Conclusions for Further Study --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - The biblical apocalyptic books of Daniel and Revelation are, for better or worse, polarizing. Interpreters have long read and searched these books for clues about how their worlds will “end,” which each new interpreter promising to have “unlocked” how Daniel and Revelation work together to uncover a divine plan for prophetic fulfillment. Redding uses the Vision of the Fourth Beast from Daniel 7 as a case study to consider how interpretations of texts take on lives of their own, eventually wedding interpretation with text and prompting the question: what even is a text? Is it what is on the page, something interpreters put there, or a combination of both? Starting with the literature of the Levant, this work traces the use of motifs, images, and themes through Daniel, Revelation, and into pre-Enlightenment Christian thinkers to consider hermeneutical trajectories that shaped (and continue to shape) how modern readers engage biblical apocalyptic literature
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463242442
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463242442
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463242442/original
ER  -