Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel

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• Themes in Biblical Narrative, Volume: 28

Volume Editors:Andrew Perrin and Loren T. Stuckenbruck

The four kingdoms motif enabled writers of various cultures, times, and places, to periodize history as the staged succession of empires barrelling towards an utopian age. The motif provided order to lived experiences under empire (the present), in See More

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• Front Matter
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    Copyright page
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    Abbreviations
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  Introduction to the Four Kingdoms as a Time Bound, Timeless, and Timely Historiographical Mechanism and Literary Motif

  Author:Andrew B. Perrin

  Pages:

  1–12

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  The Four Kingdoms and Other Chronological Conceptions in the Book of Daniel

  Author:Michael Segal

  Pages:

  13–38

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  Five Kingdoms, and Talking Beasts: Some Old Greek Variants in Relation to Daniel’s Four Kingdoms

  Author:Ian Young

  Pages:

  39–55

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  The Four (Animal) Kingdoms: Understanding Empires as Beastly Bodies

  Author:Alexandria Frisch

  Pages:

  56–80

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  The Apocalypse of Weeks: Periodization and Tradition-Historical Context

  Author:Loren T. Stuckenbruck

  Pages:

  81–95

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  Expressions of Empire and Four Kingdoms Patterns in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls

  Author:Andrew B. Perrin

  Pages:

  96–120

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  The Four Kingdoms Motif and Sibylline Temporality in Sibylline Oracles 4

  Author:Olivia Stewart Lester

  Pages:

  121–141

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  The Generation of Iron and the Final Stumbling Block: The Present Time in Hesiod’s Works and Days 106–201 and Barnabas 4

  Author:Kylie Crabbe

  Pages:

  142–166

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  The Four Kingdoms of Daniel in Hippolytus’s Commentary on Daniel

  Author:Katharina Bracht

  Pages:

  167–190

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  Persia, Rome and the Four Kingdoms Motif in the Babylonian Talmud

  Author:Geoffrey Herman

  Pages:

  191–204

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  The Four Kingdoms of Daniel in the Early Mediaeval Apocalyptic Tradition

  Author:Lorenzo DiTommaso

  Pages:

  205–250

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  The Four Kingdom Schema and the Seventy Weeks in the Arabic Reception of Daniel

  Author:Miriam L. Hjälm

  Pages:

  251–274

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  Conflicting Traditions: The Interpretation of Daniel’s Four Kingdoms in the Ethiopic Commentary (Tergwāmē) Tradition

  Author:James R. Hamrick

  Pages:

  275–299

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  The Politics of Time: Epistemic Shifts and the Reception History of the Four Kingdoms Schema

  Author:Brennan Breed

  Pages:

  300–328

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Back Matter
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  Index of Primary Sources
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  Index of Modern Authors