TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henze,Matthias
TI  - The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar: The Ancient Near Eastern Origins and Early History of Interpretation of Daniel 4 
T2  - Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
SN  - 9789004493759
AV  - BS1555.2 
U1  - 224/.506 23
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - historical  research Daniel (bijbelboek)
KW  - Traditional
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - In the mythic lore of the Ancient Near East, the trope of animalization contains a wealth of interpretive potential. The account of Nebuchadnezzar's madness in Daniel 4, the most potent example of this mythic trope in the Hebrew Bible, has provoked much fanciful elaboration among early biblical interpreters. After a study of the many ancient variants of the ubiquitous tale, the book investigates the Ancient Near Eastern background of Nebuchadnezzar's transformation. The discussion then turns to the early reception of Daniel 4 in rabbinic Judaism, the Western Fathers and, most importantly, the Syriac tradition. A number of Syriac texts from the fourth century onward explicitly draw on the model of Nebuchadnezzar as the basis for a newly evolving ascetic discipline
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004493759
ER  -