How Bel and the Serpent Went from Addition to Edition of Daniel

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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Borchardt, Francis 1981- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Catholic Biblical Association of America [2018]
In: The catholic biblical quarterly
Jahr: 2018, Band: 80, Heft: 3, Seiten: 409-428
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Bibel. Daniel 14 / Bibel. Altes Testament (Septuaginta) / Theodotion, Interpres Veteris Testamenti ca. 2. Jh.
IxTheo Notationen:HB Altes Testament
weitere Schlagwörter:B Biblical scholars
B Bel and the Serpent
B Literary Criticism
B Masorah
B Bible. Daniel
B Book of Daniel
B SNAKES in the Bible
B Septuagint
B THEODOTION, fl. ca. 180-192
B Text Criticism
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:2163-2529
Enthält:Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2018.0090