THE BOOK OF DANIEL VOLUME I SUPPLEMENTS TO VETUS TESTAMENTUM EDITED BY THE BOARD OF THE QUARTERLY H.M. BARSTAD - PHYLLIS A. BIRD - R.P. GORDON A. HURVITZ - A. VAN DER KOOll - A. LEMAIRE R. SMEND -J. TREBOLLE BARRERA J.c. VANDERKAM - H.G.M. WILLIAMSON VOLUME LXXXIII,I FORMATION AND INTERPRETATION OF OLD TESTAMENT LITERATURE II,I EDITED BY CRAIG A. EVANS and PETER W. FLINT TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY Langlf!)l, British Columbia THE BOOK OF DANIEL Composition and Reception EDITED BY JOHN J. COLLINS AND PETER W. FLINT With the Assistance qf Cameron VanEpps VOLUME ONE BRILL LEIDEN . BOSTON· KOLN 2001 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-EinheitsaufnaJune [Vetus testunentwn I Supplel1lents] Supplements to Vetus testamentum. - Leiden ; Boston; Koln : Brill Friiher Schriftenreihe Reihe Supplements zu: Vetus Testamentum ISSN 0083-5889 Vol. 83, I. Formation and interpretation of old testament literature I. The book of Daniel. - 200 I Fonnation and interpretation of old testunent literature / ed. by John]. Collins and Peter W. Flint. - Leiden ; Boston; Koln : Brill (Supplements to Vetus testamentum; ... ) ISBN 90-04-12202-8 1. The book of Daniel. - 2001 (Supplements to Vetus testamentum; Vol. 83,1) ISBN 90-04-11675-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is also available. ISSN 0083-5889 ISBN 9004 116753 (Vol. I) ISBN 90 04 12200 I (Vol. II) ISBN 9004 122028 (Set) © Copyright 2001 by Koninklijke Brill NY, Leiden, 1he Netherlands All rights reserved. No part oft his publication mqy be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval .rystem, or transmitted in any form or by a'!J' means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS CONTENTS Preface ................................................................................................. ix Terms, Sigla, and Abbreviations ......................................................... xi List of Contributors ........................................................................... xix VOLUME ONE PART ONE GENERAL TOPICS JOHN J . COLLINS Current Issues in the Study of Daniel ................................................ 1 MICHAEL A. KNmB The Book of Daniel in Its Context... ................................................ 16 PART TWO DANIEL IN ITS NEAR EASTERN MILIEU KAREL VAN DER TOORN Scholars at the Oriental Court: The Figure of Daniel Against Its Mesopotamian Background ............................................................. 37 SHALOM PAUL The Mesopotamian Babylonian Background of Daniel 1-6 ........... 55 JOHN WALTON The Anzu Myth as Relevant Background for Daniel 7? ................. 69 PART THREE ISSUES IN INTERPRETATION OF SPECIFIC PASSAGES REINHARD G. KRATZ The Visions of Daniel ...................................................................... 91 ANDRELACOCQUE Allusions to Creation in Daniel 7 .................................................. 114 ERNST HAAG Daniel 12 und die Auferstehung der Toten ................................... 132 JAN WILLEM V AN HENTEN Daniel 3 and 6 in Early Christian Literature ................................. 149 vi THE BOOK OF DANIEL: COMPOSITION AND RECEPTION PART FOUR SOCIAL SETTING RAINER ALBERTZ The Social Setting ofthe Aramaic and Hebrew Book of Daniel... 171 STEFAN BEYERLE The Book of Daniel and Its Social Setting .................................... 205 LESTER L. GRABBE A Dan(iel) for All Seasons: For Whom was Daniel Important? ... 229 PHILIP DAVIES The Scribal School of DanieL ....................................................... 247 DANIEL SMITH-CHRISTOPHER Prayers and Dreams: Power and Diaspora Identities in the Social Setting of the Daniel Tales ........................................... 266 VOLUME TWO PART FIVE LITERARY CONTEXT, INCLUDING QUMRAN JAN-WIM WESSELIUS The Writing of Daniel GABRIELE BOCCACCINI The Solar Calendars of Daniel and Enoch PETER FLINT The Daniel Tradition at Qumran LORENSTUCKENBRUCK Daniel and Early Enoch Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls ESTHER ESHEL Possible Sources of the Book of Daniel JOHN HOBBINS Resurrrection in the Daniel Tradition and Other Writings at Qumran PART SIX RECEPTION IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY KLAUS KOCH Stages in the Canonization of the Book of Daniel CONTENTS vii CHRISTOPHER ROWLAND The Book of Daniel and the Radical Political Critique of Empire. An Essay in Apocalyptic Hermeneutics UWE GLESSMER Die "vier Reiche" aus Daniel in der targumischen Literatur CRAIG A. EVANS Daniel in the New Testament: Visions of God's Kingdom JAMES D. G. DUNN The Danielic Son of Man in the New Testament MATTHIAS HENZE Nebuchadnezzar's Madness (Daniel 4) in Syriac Literature PART SEVEN TEXTUAL HISTORY EUGENE ULRICH The Text of Daniel in the Qumran Scrolls ALEXANDER A. DI LELLA, OFM The Textual History of Septuagint-Daniel and Theodotion-Daniel KONRAD D. JENNER Syriac Daniel PART EIGHT THE THEOLOGY OF DANIEL JOHN GOLDINGA Y Daniel in the Context of Old Testament Theology JOHN BARTON Theological Ethics in Daniel JOHANLUST Cult and Sacrifice in Daniel. The Tamid and the Abomination of Desolation INDICES a. Index of Biblical Passages b. Index of Non-Biblical Passages c. Index of Modern Authors