TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suchard,Benjamin D.
TI  - Aramaic Daniel: A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7 
T2  - Studia Semitica Neerlandica
SN  - 9789004521308
AV  - BS586.A35 
U1  - 220.096 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Afro-Asiatic Languages
KW  - Authors, Texts, Literature
KW  - Biblical Studies
KW  - Christians & Jews
KW  - Jewish Studies
KW  - Languages and Linguistics
KW  - Literature & Linguistics
KW  - Middle East and Islamic Studies
KW  - Ancient Near East and Egypt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This book investigates the literary and textual development of the book of Daniel, especially the six court tales and the Four Beasts apocalypse, based on comparison of ancient manuscripts and versions and internal reconstruction; The first half of the book of Daniel contains world-famous stories like the Writing on the Wall. These stories have mostly been transmitted in Aramaic, not Hebrew, as has the influential apocalypse of Daniel 7. This Aramaic corpus shows clear signs of multiple authorship. Which different textual layers can we tease apart, and what do they tell us about the changing function of the Danielic material during the Second Temple Period? This monograph compares the Masoretic Text of Daniel to ancient manuscripts and translations preserving textual variants. By highlighting tensions in the reconstructed archetype underlying all these texts, it then probes the tales’ prehistory even further, showing how Daniel underwent many transformations to yield the book we know today
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004521308
ER  -