How to read Daniel /
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| Author / Creator: | Longman, Tremper, III, author. |
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| Imprint: | Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, 2020. |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | How to read series |
| Subject: | Bible. -- Daniel -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible. -- Daniel. Electronic books. Commentaries. |
| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12591500 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Invitation to the Book of Daniel
- Part One: Reading Daniel in Its Original Setting
- Stories and visions in the midst of oppression : genre, language, and structure
- Babylonian exile and Persian (and Greek) comination : the historical setting of the Book of Daniel
- Comfort in the midst of oppression : the theme of the book
- Part Two: Reading Daniel as Six Stories and Four Visions
- Forced to train in a hostile environment, part 1: Daniel 1
- Forced to train in a hostile environment, part 2: Daniel 2
- God humbles powerful Nebuchadnezzar : Daniel 4 - Who can interpret the writing on the wall?: Daniel 5
- The three friends and the fiery furnace: Daniel 3
- Daniel in the lions' den: Daniel 6
- "One like a Son of Man": Daniel 7
- A ram and a goat: Daniel 8
- Seventy weeks: the exile continues: Daniel 9
- "Yet he will come to his end": Daniel 10:1-12:4
- "Go your way till the end": Daniel 12:5-13
- Part Three: Reading Daniel as a Twenty-First-Century Christian
- How to live in a toxic culture: Daniel 1-6
- Finding comfort in God's ultimate fictory: Daniel 7-12.