alternative histories (2017/10/29)
We're playing with history in all three readings this week, all in slightly different ways. In the New Testament, Stephen throws the entire Hebrew Bible narrative on its head in pretty much the most subversive way possible. In Daniel, we have a different challenge: an alternative to the history of interpretation. But it's the Chronicler who really sets us up for this when he goes to town on a history of King Uzziah, who is largely wiped from the narrative of 2 Kings.
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Re-telling and re-framing the past is a totally biblical way to read the Bible! We're going to revisit this idea next week: but if we truly believe that the Bible itself teaches us how to interpret it, then the Chronicler is teaching us that the past commentates on the present - especially when you retell it in just a certain way...
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Further Reading
Collins, John J. (1984). Daniel, with an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature, Forms of the Old Testament Literature series. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans.
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