The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception (2001 Collins/Flint), edited volume

The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception (2001) is a volume edited by John J. Collins and Peter W. Flint.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Table of contents

PART ONE - GENERAL TOPICS

• Current Issues in the Study of Daniel / John J. Collins
• The Book of Daniel in Its Context / Michael A. Knibb

PART TWO - DANIEL IN ITS NEAR EASTERN MILIEU

• Scholars at the Oriental Court: The Figure of Daniel Against Its Mesopotamian Background / Karel Van Der Toorn
• The Mesopotamian Babylonian Background of Daniel 1-6 / Shalom Paul
• The Anzu Myth as Relevant Background for Daniel 7? / John Walton

PART THREE - ISSUES IN INTERPRETATION OF SPECIFIC PASSAGES

• The Visions of Daniel / Reinhard G. Kratz
• Allusions to Creation in Daniel 7 / Andre Lacocque
• Daniel 12 und die Auferstehung der Toten / Ernst Haag
• Daniel 3 and 6 in Early Christian Literature / Jan Willem Van Henten

PART FOUR - SOCIAL SETTING

• The Social Setting of the Aramaic and Hebrew Book of Daniel / Rainer Albertz
• The Book of Daniel and Its Social Setting / Stefan Beyerle
• A Dan(iel) for All Seasons: For Whom was Daniel Important'? / Lester L. Grabbe
• The Scribal School of Daniel / Philip R. Davies
• Prayers and Dreams: Power and Diaspora Identities in the Social Setting of the Daniel Tales / Daniel Smith-Christopher

PART FIVE - LITERARY CONTEXT, INCLUDING QUMRAN

• The Writing of Daniel / Jan-Wim Wesselius
• The Solar Calendars of Daniel and Enoch / Gabriele Boccaccini
• The Daniel Tradition at Qumran / Peter W. Flint
• Daniel and Early Enoch Traditions in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Loren T. Stuckenbruck
• Possible Sources of the Book of Daniel / Esther Eshel
• Resurrection in the Daniel Tradition and Other Writings at Qumran / John Hobbins

PART SIX - RECEPTION IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

• Stages in the Canonization of the Book of Daniel / Klaus Koch
• The Book of Daniel and the Radical Political Critique of Empire. An Essay in Apocalyptic Hermeneutics / Christopher Rowland
• Die "vier Reiche" aus Daniel in der targumischen Literatur / Uwe Glessmer
• Daniel in the New Testament: Visions of God's Kingdom / Craig A. Evans
• The Danielic Son of Man in the New Testament / James D.G. Dunn
• Nebuchadnezzar's Madness (Daniel 4) in Syriac Literature / Matthias Henze

PART SEVEN - TEXTUAL HISTORY

• The Text of Daniel in the Qumran Scrolls / Eugene C. Ulrich
• The Textual History of Septuagint-Daniel and Theodotion-Daniel / Alexander A. Di Lella
• Syriac Daniel / Konrad D. Jenner

PART EIGHT - THE THEOLOGY OF DANIEL

• Daniel in the Context of Old Testament Theology / John Goldingay
• Theological Ethics in Daniel / John Barton
• Cult and Sacrifice in Daniel. The Tamid and the Abomination of Desolation / Johan Lust