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| Title: Josephus' Treatment of the Book of Daniel Pages: 149-166 Type: Generic Year: 1991 Abstract: "1. Dan repräsentiert in den ""Altertümern"" ""a reliable record of Jewish life in Babylonia and the already fulfilled parts of several prophetic vision"" (151). 2. Josephus' Dan ist ein Mischtext zwsichen LXX und Theodotion. 3. Weder deuterokanonische Zusätze noch Dan 7 und 9-12 werden zitiert. 4. Josephus kürzt den biblischen Text, berichtet manchmal breiter, manchmal kommentiert er. Nicht wenige seiner Erweiterunge gehen auf jüdische Quellen zurück. ES This study describes and evaluates Josephus' interpretative treatment of Daniel. After discussing some preliminary questions, the article attempts to explain the discrepancies between the biblical Daniel and the corresponding sections of Josephus' Antiquities 10. Then it reflects on the Jewish sources of Antiquities and on Josephus' use of these sources. This examination throws some light on the elasticity of the Greek text of Daniel, brings home the antiquity of many of the exegetical traditions surviving in later Jewish compositions, and gives insight into Josephus himself. - C.R.M. The main purpose of this study is to describe and evaluate the interpretative treatment meted out by Josephus to Daniel. However, before such an examination can be untertaken, three preliminary questions must be dealt with briefly: (1) the place fo the Book of Daniel in Jewish Antiquities; (2) the Greek text or texts used by Josephus; (3) the sections of the canonical and apocryphal Daniel omitted in Antiquities." Keywords: Relation of Josephus to Hebrew Bible, Septuagint, and Rabbinic Literature |