Daniel 4 and its Readers (Yesterday and Today)
A Message Rooted in its History
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.47182/rb.85.n1-2-2023348Keywords:
Daniel 4, Nebuchadnezzar, Antiochus III, Seleucids, Dead Sea, Gerusia, Pragmatic analysis, Speech acts, Poor, Justice, Almsgiving, Empirical readerAbstract
The article proposes to recognize the literary function that Daniel 4 has
for the readers of the text: What incentives have they been able to find? What answers
are enclosed therein? What is the transforming message read by the first
reader or by the community of readers over the years? From the pragmatic analysis
of the text, understood as a harmonic unit that wants to communicate a message,
we try to identify the praxis transmitted to the readers through the formal structure and meaning proposed. In a second moment, from the historical criticism, the theological
conceptions present in Daniel 4 are recognized as a response to circumstances
and historical events that reflect the social matrices and cultural contexts of the
second Temple period.
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