(August 24, 2022 at 2:48 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(August 24, 2022 at 2:06 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Well..there's certainly a hell of alot of content that the author of daniel used those sorts of narratives to tell us.
Well, Daniel is arguably the most important book in Adventism. The entire denomination is built upon it's interpretation, so I'm aware there's a lot of meaning embedded in it. However, the difference here is that what is being interpreted by Adventists is the message that is being told to Daniel in the story.
Whereas your interpretation seems more meta: Daniel is a character in a different author's story, and that author is constructing this first-person narrative to embed a more abstract and symbolic story. Is that right?
Read it like you would read the Iliad & Odyssey.
