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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827904703321

Autore

DiTommaso Lorenzo

Titolo

The book of Daniel and the apocryphal Daniel literature / / by Lorenzo DiTommaso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-86816-3

9786610868162

90-474-0759-8

1-4337-0726-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (567 p.)

Collana

Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha, , 0169-8125 ; ; v. 20

Disciplina

229/.91 s

224/.506

Soggetti

Bible stories

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One: The Apocryphal Daniel Literature: Parameters of the Study; Chapter Two: The Story of Daniel in the Book of Daniel and in the Daniel Legenda; Chapter Three: The Apocryphal Daniel Apocalypses; Chapter Four: The Daniel Prognostica; Chapter Five: General Observations and Conclusions; Chapter Six: The Apocryphal Daniel Literature: Inventory and Bibliography; Indexes

Sommario/riassunto

This volume illuminates the full extent of the corpus of ancient and mediaeval apocryphal Daniel literature. It is the first study to examine the Daniel legenda, the apocryphal apocalypses, and the prognostica as discrete categories of texts and to evaluate their generic relationship to the biblical Book of Daniel. Special emphases include the identification of the texts and their manuscript evidence as well as the study of late antique and early mediaeval apocalyptic literature attributed to Daniel. This volume will be of particular interest to biblical scholars and to those who specialise in biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha.