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Reading Daniel: Negotiating the Classic Issues of the Book
After reading the Reading Daniel: Negotiating the Classic Issues of the Book by Kathy Lopez, this leave me think that there was and still is much concern with the content of the book of Daniel and how it was written and why there were two types of dialect used. While the stories that are found in the book of Daniel are interesting they leave scholar perplexed as well as Susan Lopez. Although she has given a great analogy of how the book of Daniel may have been put together it makes you aware of how there can also be confusion.
Susan takes great care in explaining the breakdown of how scholars have assessed Daniel, and how the book may have been put together. The deductions of why the chapters have been arranged in a certain manner, as well as the languages used.
“Chapters 1-6 are short stories; chapters 7-12 are apocalyptic visions (Lopez)” while this is just one aspect of how the book are written Lopez also offers other option which are in the opinion of other scholars. One of the biggest challenges which I saw reading this article dealt with the time era and the …show more content…
As this article concludes it “help us make sense of and respond to the experience of twenty-first-century Christianity in the United States and other so-called "first world" countries where Christians are increasingly marginalized as a cultural force within the larger society (Lopez).” The overall article is for anyone who has questions or would like to better understand the book of Daniel. Although it has questions to the validity of the writings the book of Daniel, someone could use this as a guide to understanding the sections that Stephen Cook has broken down. New theologians and or people like me who are writing a paper for religions study
Reading Daniel: Negotiating the Classic Issues of the Book
After reading the Reading Daniel: Negotiating the Classic Issues of the Book by Kathy Lopez, this leave me think that there was and still is much concern with the content of the book of Daniel and how it was written and why there were two types of dialect used. While the stories that are found in the book of Daniel are interesting they leave scholar perplexed as well as Susan Lopez. Although she has given a great analogy of how the book of Daniel may have been put together it makes you aware of how there can also be confusion.
Susan takes great care in explaining the breakdown of how scholars have assessed Daniel, and how the book may have been put together. The deductions of why the chapters have been arranged in a certain manner, as well as the languages used.
“Chapters 1-6 are short stories; chapters 7-12 are apocalyptic visions (Lopez)” while this is just one aspect of how the book are written Lopez also offers other option which are in the opinion of other scholars. One of the biggest challenges which I saw reading this article dealt with the time era and the …show more content…
As this article concludes it “help us make sense of and respond to the experience of twenty-first-century Christianity in the United States and other so-called "first world" countries where Christians are increasingly marginalized as a cultural force within the larger society (Lopez).” The overall article is for anyone who has questions or would like to better understand the book of Daniel. Although it has questions to the validity of the writings the book of Daniel, someone could use this as a guide to understanding the sections that Stephen Cook has broken down. New theologians and or people like me who are writing a paper for religions study