RT Article
T1 How Bel and the Serpent Went from Addition to Edition of Daniel
JF The catholic biblical quarterly
VO 80
IS 3
SP 409
OP 428
A1 Borchardt, Francis 1981-
LA English
PB Catholic Biblical Association of America
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1577393759
AB The textual witnesses to the Book of Daniel are complex. They present a challenge to any scholar wishing to investigate the production and transmission of the book in the ancient world. The difficulties with the text are not limited to the twelve-chapter masoretic tradition but extend also to the so-called additions to Daniel. These not only appear in divergent locations within different editions and manuscripts but also appear in different forms. In this study, I argue that at least some of the differences between the Old Greek of Bel and the Serpent and the Theodotion edition of the story should be attributed to a pronounced interest on the part of Theodotion to link its version of the story to Daniel 6, the other story of Daniel in the lions’ den. To prove this point I examine the introductory verses, the use of divine names, and the description of the lions’ den.
K1 Bible. Daniel
K1 Biblical scholars
K1 Bel and the Serpent
K1 Book of Daniel
K1 Masorah
K1 SNAKES in the Bible
K1 Septuagint
K1 THEODOTION, fl. ca. 180-192
K1 Literary Criticism
K1 Text Criticism
DO 10.1353/cbq.2018.0090