TY - BOOK ID - 2734987 TI - The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar : the ancient Near Eastern origins and early history of interpretation of Daniel 4 PY - 1999 VL - 61 SN - 9004114211 9004493751 9789004114210 9789004493759 PB - Leiden : E.J. Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Nebuchadnezzar KW - 224.5 KW - Toevoegsels bij Daniel: Oratio Azariae; Susanna; Bel et Draco KW - Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylonia KW - Bible. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Buk̲h̲t-Naṣar KW - Nabû-kudurri-uṣur KW - Nabucco KW - Nabucodonosor KW - Nabūkhadhnaṣṣar al-Thānī, KW - Nebucadnezar KW - Nebuchadrezzar KW - Nevukhadnetsar KW - Nevukhadretsar KW - Bible. O.T. Daniel IV KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Nebuchadnezzar II KW - Nebuchadnezzar - II, - King of Babylonia, - d. 562 B.C. KW - Bible. - O.T. - Daniel IV - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - historical research Daniel (bijbelboek) KW - Traditional UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2734987 AB - In the mythic lore of the Ancient Near East, the trope of animalization contains a wealth of interpretive potential. The account of Nebuchadnezzar's madness in Daniel 4, the most potent example of this mythic trope in the Hebrew Bible, has provoked much fanciful elaboration among early biblical interpreters. After a study of the many ancient variants of the ubiquitous tale, the book investigates the Ancient Near Eastern background of Nebuchadnezzar's transformation. The discussion then turns to the early reception of Daniel 4 in rabbinic Judaism, the Western Fathers and, most importantly, the Syriac tradition. A number of Syriac texts from the fourth century onward explicitly draw on the model of Nebuchadnezzar as the basis for a newly evolving ascetic discipline. ER -