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Nabuchodonosor II : roi de babylone.
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ISBN: 2213617619 9782213617619 Year: 2004 Publisher: S.l. Fayard

The Madness of King Nebuchadnezzar : the ancient Near Eastern origins and early history of interpretation of Daniel 4
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ISBN: 9004114211 9004493751 9789004114210 9789004493759 Year: 1999 Volume: 61 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

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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.

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