The Antiochene Crisis and Jubilee Theology in Daniel’s Seventy Sevens

Download or read book The Antiochene Crisis and Jubilee Theology in Daniel’s Seventy Sevens written by Dean R. Ulrich and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Antiochene Crisis and Jubilee Theology in Daniel’s Seventy Sevens, Dean R. Ulrich explores the joint interest of Daniel 9:24-27 in the Antiochene crisis of the second century B.C.E. and the jubilee theology conveyed by the prophecy’s structure. This study is necessary because previous scholarship, though recognizing the jubilee structure of the seventy sevens, has not sufficiently made the connection between jubilee and the six objectives of Daniel 9:24. Previous scholarship also has not adequately related the book’s interest in Antiochus IV to the hope of jubilee, which involves the full inheritance that God has promised to his people but that they had lost because of their compromises with Antiochus IV.