Abstract

The book of Daniel is classified as apocalyptic literature, and this has consequences for what we expect to find in it so far as moral teaching is concerned. If apocalypticism is the literature of small, beleaguered groups looking for deliverance from oppression, then the ethics of apocalypticism can be expected to manifest the mind-set of such groups, with their desire to stress all that binds them together and makes them distinctive. This representative of early Jewish apocalypticism continues ethical themes which were the property of Israelite tradition, and does not show signs of the sectarian style of ethics which might be expected of a book widely thought to come from a small group of pious people separate from the great bulk of the people of Judah in its day. Its determinism certainly leads to make more of the theme of submission to the divine will than most other Hebrew literature. Keywords: book of Daniel; ethical themes; Hebrew literature; Israelite tradition; Jewish apocalypticism

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