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Daniel After Babylon: The Additions in the History of Interpretation: Reception of Old Testament Apocrypha

Autor Jennie Grillo
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 feb 2024
The biblical book of Daniel was known to Jewish and Christian antiquity in its longer versions, preserved for us in the Greek textual tradition. Those Additions, as they came to be called (the tale of Susanna and the legends of Bel and the Dragon, the Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Hebrews in the fiery furnace), have travelled on through languages and cultures and have generated long trails of interpretation, from commentary and religious iconography to fine art and domestic interiors. This book follows three particular trails in the reception of the longer Daniel-book, tracing the themes of martyrdom, afterlife worlds, and the act of seeing beauty. Recovering and documenting the voices of ancient, medieval, and modern interpreters, we meet an assembled cast of Jewish and Christian martyrs, liturgical subjects facing purgatory or paradise, and women resisting voyeuristic viewing. All this reception, though, is a route to reading the text of Greek Daniel itself: these later interpreters move this study towards exegetical conclusions about the Jewish roots of ancient martyrdom, the importance of the book of Daniel to the expansion of afterlife spaces within Second Temple Judaism, and a defense of the ethics of narration in the text of Susanna. Drawing on methods of material philology, Jennie Grillo argues for the central place of the Additions in the readerly history of the book of Daniel, and for this longer Daniel-book's abiding significance for theology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198868200
ISBN-10: 0198868200
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 37 colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 160 x 241 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Reception of Old Testament Apocrypha

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Jennie Grillo's Daniel After Babylon is an enlightening and enriching journey, tracing major themes from the Additions to Daniel through their developments in both Jewish and Christian contexts. She demonstrates that she is astute reader and interpreter of these fascinating Apocryphal passages, and moreover, that she is a gifted guide, leading the reader through a fascinating set of investigations into their afterlife, which combine diverse methodologies, including material history, literary readings, visual and artistic analysis, and theological explorations. Her lucid writing invites the reader to join her in this quest and makes this book a pleasure to read.
In this original and insightful approach to the reception of the Additions to Daniel, Jennie Grillo emphasizes the ways in which these narratives and poems were experienced in the religious imagination of generations of Christians. The attention to the materiality of manuscripts, illustrations, and paintings expands the reader's sense of how reception happens. Lived practices of prayer, song, and visualization, rather than commentary, are brought to the fore. Many readers will be astonished that what so often seems a marginal part of the biblical corpus played a central role in the shaping of Christian understanding and piety. A superb study.
The volume offers an impressively rich reception history of the Greek Additions to the biblical book of Daniel. .. Jennie Grillo's volume not only gathers sources of diverse kinds but also weaves them into a cohesive interpretive framework, allowing readers to discern recurring themes and distinctive variations, like harmonies resonating within a concert.
This is a wonderful book as a study in its own right: for its elucidation of the message of the Additions to the Book of Daniel, for its portrayal of the enhancement of their meaning in its afterlives, and for the methodological skill undergirding the work. Its own afterlife will also continue as an invaluable source for later students of the Daniel corpus and its reception.

Notă biografică

Jennie Grillo completed her doctoral study at the Oriental Institute, Oxford, after an undergraduate degree in English, and has taught at Harvard, UMass Amherst, Duke, and now the University of Notre Dame. She has published on Ecclesiastes, wisdom literature, early Christian biblical interpretation, Isaiah, Daniel, kingship, memory, idolatry, deification, and apophatic theology. Her research has been supported by the National Humanities Center, the Louisville Institute, and the American Council of Learned Societies.