"The Vision of Daniel" from the St. Petersburg Genizah
This article includes translation of a "new" Vision of Daniel as it survived, albeit incomplete. It reflects a "meeting point" between three monotheistic religions in the ninth and tenth centuries CE. A comparative study of the work enables the reconstruction of its missing parts...
| Published in: | Harvard theological review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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| In: |
Harvard theological review
Year: 2022, Volume: 115, Issue: 3, Pages: 331-362 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Apocalypse of Daniel
/ Caliphate
/ History 700-1000
/ Redemption
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| RelBib Classification: | HB Old Testament KBL Near East and North Africa NBQ Eschatology TE Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
Abbasid Caliphs
B Fatimid Caliphs B Theophilos B Vision of Daniel B the Son of the Daughter of Levi B Jewish Apocrypha B al-Muʿtaṣim B al-Sufyānī |
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| Summary: | This article includes translation of a "new" Vision of Daniel as it survived, albeit incomplete. It reflects a "meeting point" between three monotheistic religions in the ninth and tenth centuries CE. A comparative study of the work enables the reconstruction of its missing parts. The Vision may have been composed in the area where al-Muʿtaṣim battled Theophilos in the 830s CE, namely, northern Syria and southeastern Anatolia. An "updated" appendix was added around 1000 CE. Towards the end of the Vision, exact times are replaced with "flexible times," a moderate expression of the cosmic changes found in similar eschatological works. The two anti-messiahs described, constructed as integrations of Jewish-Christian-Muslim traditions of the apocalyptical devils, reflect the shifting identities of messianic figures, who will reveal themselves once again (Parousia), albeit as demonic antichrists. One of the two is an inversion of the Christian image of Moses/Jesus, whereas the second is Armilus. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816022000220 |