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By:Paul Niskanen
Published on 2004-06-22 by A&C Black
ISBN 9780567082138
Synopsis
The Human and the Divine in History investigates the possibility that the author of Daniel knew and drew upon the Histories of Herodotus. Daniel uses and develops Herodotean concepts such as the succession of world empires, dynastic dreams, and the focus on both human and divine cauration in explaining historical events. A comparative reading of these two texts illuminates Daniel's theology of history, showing it to be neither as exclusively eschatological nor as sectarian as is often supposed. Rather, it is specifically the end of exile\u0097understood as foreign domination\u0097that Daniel envisions for the entire Jewish people.
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