The Reception of the Book of Daniel in Late Ancient and Medieval Armenian Society
Cowe, S. Peter · 2014
A 47-page study of how the Book of Daniel was received, read and redeployed in Armenian society from late antiquity through the middle ages. It connects directly to Cowe's own critical edition, The Armenian Version of Daniel (1992).
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Cowe, S. Peter 2014. The Reception of the Book of Daniel in Late Ancient and Medieval Armenian Society. In The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective, pp. 79–125 (Brill, Leiden); DOI 10.1163/9789004270268_006. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004270268_006
What this offers a reader
Why a biblical book about exile and empire kept being reread by Armenians under conquest.
Substantial reception-history chapter building on the author's own critical edition.
A book about surviving under empire, read again and again by people surviving under empire.
Why Armenians kept returning to the Book of Daniel.
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