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by G. Brooke Lester (Author), Laura Quick (Editor), Jacqueline Vayntrub (Editor)
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.
G. Brooke Lester is Assistant Professor in Hebrew Scriptures and Director of Digital Learning at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, USA.
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