Constructing Fear and Pride in the Book of Daniel: The Profile of a Second Temple Emotional Community

This paper examines the seminal role that emotions, particularly fear and pride, play in the book of Daniel. Drawing upon the idea of “emotional communities,” I view the book’s final redactor as engaged with the views of one such community during the period of the Antiochan persecutions. The redacto...

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Main Author: Mermelstein, Ari 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Journal for the study of Judaism
Year: 2015, Volume: 46, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 449-483
Further subjects:B Judaism Hebrew Bible Second Temple period Hasmoneans Daniel emotion fear pride
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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