Four Kingdom Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel

Andrew B. Perrin, Ph.D. (2013), McMaster University, is Canada Research Chair in Religious Identities of Ancient Judaism at Trinity Western University. His research on Daniel and Qumran has garnered the Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise and David Noel Freedman Award.Loren T. Stuckenbruck, Ph.D. (1994), Princeton Theological Seminary, is Professor of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. His previous books include a commentary on 1 Enoch 91–108 and The Myth of Rebellious Angels.

• AbbreviationsIntroduction to the Four Kingdoms as a Time Bound, Timeless, and Timely Historiographical Mechanism and Literary MotifAndrew B. PerrinThe Four Kingdoms and Other Chronological Conceptions in the Book of DanielMichael SegalFive Kingdoms, and Talking Beasts: Some Old Greek Variants in Relation to Daniel’s Four KingdomsIan YoungThe Four (Animal) Kingdoms: Understanding Empires as Beastly BodiesAlexandria FrischThe Apocalypse of Weeks: Periodization and Tradition-Historical ContextLoren T. StuckenbruckExpressions of Empire and Four Kingdoms Patterns in the Aramaic Dead Sea ScrollsAndrew B. PerrinThe Four Kingdoms Motif and Sibylline Temporality in Sibylline Oracles 4Olivia Stewart LesterThe Generation of Iron and the Final Stumbling Block: The Present Time in Hesiod’s Works and Days 106–201 and Barnabas 4Kylie CrabbeThe Four Kingdoms of Daniel in Hippolytus’s Commentary on DanielKatharina BrachtPersia, Rome and the Four Kingdoms Motif in the Babylonian TalmudGeoffrey HermanThe Four Kingdoms of Daniel in the Early Mediaeval Apocalyptic TraditionLorenzo DiTommasoThe Four Kingdom Schema and the Seventy Weeks in the Arabic Reception of DanielMiriam L. HjälmConflicting Traditions: The Interpretation of Daniel’s Four Kingdoms in the Ethiopic Commentary (Tergwāmē) TraditionJames R. HamrickThe Politics of Time: Epistemic Shifts and the Reception History of the Four Kingdoms SchemaBrennan BreedIndex of Primary SourcesIndex of Modern Authors

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