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Cosmic Battle and Political Conflict: Studies in Verbal Syntax and Contextual Interpretation of Daniel 8 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This study offers a fresh appreciation of the various literary elements and genres that constitute Daniel 8 as a whole. Namely, these are the narrative frame, the vision report itself as well as its application to Jewish history under Antiochus IV. While situating the message of this chapter within the Book of Daniel, it also shows the importance of the Ancient Neat Eastern context for the...

Deut 33:17, נגח (Piel) alone in Ps 44:6,383 the idea of “breaking” in Num 24:8, the “treading” on enemies in Hab 3:19, both together in Ps 18:39 || 2 Sam 22:39 (cf. Ps 47:4; 58:11; Mal 3:21). There is, as has been seen in the preceding sections, no encrypted reference to a particular ruler, but the generic pattern of a struggle in the supernatural world assumes central notions of kingship. But again, these allusions to royal typology in Daniel 8 are complemented by a demoniac notion, namely the
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