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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Languages of Identity and Obligation: Daniel as Bilingual Book
Contributor:
Portier-Young, Anathea E.
imprint:
Brill Academic Publishers, 2010
Published in:
Vetus Testamentum, 60 (2010) 1, Seite 98-115
Language:
English
ISSN:
0042-4935
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>Sociolinguistics provides a theoretical framework for viewing the bilingualism of the book of Daniel as a deliberate rhetorical strategy. The author(s) of Daniel began their discourse in Hebrew, switched to Aramaic, and concluded in Hebrew to move its audience to a recognition of a new context in which the claims of empire had dissolved and claims of covenant alone remained. In so doing, the author(s) invited the audience to find their place within the world of the visions, forsaking a stance of collaboration with the reigning Seleucid empire in order to adopt a posture of resistance rooted in covenant.</p>