By Lorenzo DiTommaso

This quantity illuminates the complete quantity of the corpus of old and mediaeval apocryphal Daniel literature. it's the first learn to ascertain the Daniel legenda, the apocryphal apocalypses, and the prognostica as discrete different types of texts and to judge their universal courting to the biblical e-book of Daniel. specific emphases comprise the id of the texts and their manuscript proof in addition to the examine of past due old and early mediaeval apocalyptic literature attributed to Daniel. This quantity should be of specific curiosity to biblical students and to people who focus on biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha.

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The Structure and Purposes of This Study To purpose of this study is two-fold: i) to illuminate the full corpus of the ancient and mediaeval Jewish, Christian, and Islamic apoc42 For a fuller discussion of this and other dissimilarities between the focus of the apocalyptic Daniel apocrypha and that of the Daniel prognostica, see Chapter Four, §1. 43 The prognostica, too, preserve their own internal consistency and formal autonomy. See Chapter Four, §§2 and 3 for more details on the significance of the setting in Nebuchadnezzar’s reign of the Prologue to the Somniale Danielis and the Lunationes Danielis.

The chronological range of this study extends from the second century bce, when MT Daniel attained its final form in the context of the cycle of Hellenistic-era Daniel texts, until the close of the fifteenth century of the Common Era, the final five decades of which witnessed the fall of Byzantium in the east and the critical transition from the manuscript codex to the printed book in the west. To be sure, the production of apocryphal literature did not terminate with the invention and spread of the printed word,45 nor did the 45 The Testament of Alexander the Great, which was composed in the first half of the nineteenth century by a Greek nationalist monk is a good example of the survival of the very ancient genre of the apocalyptic testament.

Istrin, “OÚÍo‚eÌie MeÙo‰ifl èaÚapcÍa„o Ë aÔoÍpËÙ˘ecÍifl ‚ˉ´Ìia ÑaÌiËÎa ‚˙ ‚ËÁaÌÚiÈcÍÓÈ Ë cÎa‚flÌopyccÍoÈ ÎËÚepaÚypaı˙. A. àÁcδ‰o‚aÌie. II. 3) (Moskva, 1897), 253–329; idem, “OÚÍpo‚eÌie MeÙo‰ifl 59 èaÚapcÍa„o Ë aÔoÍpËÙ˘ecÍifl ‚ˉ´Ìia ÑaÌiËÎa ‚˙ ‚ËÁaÌÚiÈcÍoÈ Ë cÎa‚flÌopyccÍoÈ ÎËÚepaÚyaı˙. B. TeÍcÚ˚. II. 1) (Moskva, 1898), 135–162. On the arrangement of Istrin’s work, see Chapter Three, note 32. For a long time the editions of Vassiliev (note 58) and Istrin remained relatively unknown to Western scholars.

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