RT Article
T1 The Vocabulary of Desolation: Intertextual Allusions in Daniel 9.25-27 and the Meaning of Ḥārûṣ
JF The Bible translator
VO 71
IS 3
SP 320
OP 330
A1 Scolnic, Benjamin
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1747440590
AB The word wĕḥārûṣ in Dan 9.25 may mean something different from the usual rendering “moat.” A study of (1) the use of ḥārûṣ in the Hebrew Bible, (2) the fact that Dan 9.25-27 contains intertextual allusions to Isa 10.22-23 and 28.22, 27, where ḥārûṣ and neḥĕrāṣāh are found in prophecies of destruction, (3) the context of the verse that concludes with ûbĕṣôq hāʿittîm “and in a time of distress,” and (4) the surrounding passage that reinterprets Jeremiah’s prophecy of seventy years of exile as seventy “weeks” of years, which includes the postexilic era, may lead to a new understanding of wĕḥārûṣ in this verse.
K1 Daniel 9.25-27
K1 ḥārûṣ
K1 intertextual allusion
DO 10.1177/2051677020954902