literature from Palestine—show that its descriptions of the closing moments of history were adopted as a model for eschatological description and reapplied to yet future events; its references were reinterpreted so that it could still address the future. What Daniel 9 did to Jeremiah, others did to Daniel. The Synoptic ‘apocalypse’ of Mark 13 and its parallels are the best-known example of such reapplication (Matthew showing the closest dependence on the text of Daniel). The Christian Church subsequently
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