%0 Journal Article
%T A Reversal of Fortunes: Daniel among the Scholars
%A Amy C. Merrill Willis
%J Currents in Biblical Research
%@ 1745-5200
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1476993X17711665
%X Scholarship on the book of Daniel has undergone a significant shift since the publication of K. Koch¡¯s groundbreaking work, The Rediscovery of Apocalyptic, in 1972. Despite significant achievements in understanding the historical-critical issues of the book, scholarship viewed Daniel¡¯s apocalyptic visions as embarrassing. The renaissance in Daniel studies that began in the 1970s has since produced a robust conversation and newer theory-driven insights around well-established areas of interest. These include Daniel¡¯s textual traditions and compositional history, the function of its genres, the social settings of its writers, and Daniel¡¯s near eastern literary and cultural milieu. New areas of interest identified in the landmark study of J.J. Collins and P.W. Flint (2001; 2002), namely the history of reception and political theologizing, have also gained ground. Daniel¡¯s reversal of fortunes is due to new methodologies as well as a fundamental paradigm shift in interpretation; this change has seen Daniel scholarship move away from the search for Daniel¡¯s historical meaning, narrowly construed, and toward the quest to understand what Daniel does to and for its readers
%K Daniel
%K court tales
%K apocalyptic
%K myth
%K resistance literature
%K visions
%K political theology
%K empire
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1476993X17711665