RE: The Story
August 25, 2022 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2022 at 5:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Again, Daniel is not a prophet in judaism...and I didn't think I'd have to mention that prophecy is a complete nonstarter academically. Christian interpretations of the ot are not their traditional interpretations.
In the end, you know I don't particularly mind when people don't agree with the consensus view on some biblical issue. It's not like imma deduct brownie points from you for straying from that path. To some extent, it's practically guaranteed - as you're a believing christian who has ideological and theological requirements of the text and the academic positions on every biblical issue are decidedly secular. I don't think I can add much to the point I was making except to say that this argument has itself been an example of the issue of missing or rejected narrative content under dogmatically motivated interpretations.
They are not traditional or conservative, except insomuch as they are traditional to your faith, and your subsect of your faith. I think that does the stories a disservice, is all. You read it, as you apparently must, as a simple story about Some Guy predicting the future of your god. I read it and connect with the author and even let myself imagine what that author would have felt if he'd seen the summation of the moment that lead to the narratives construction. In the one telling, it's just a declaration about some other thing, some other religion..even. In the other, it's one part of a complex and difficult time in the history of the culture telling the story.
In the end, you know I don't particularly mind when people don't agree with the consensus view on some biblical issue. It's not like imma deduct brownie points from you for straying from that path. To some extent, it's practically guaranteed - as you're a believing christian who has ideological and theological requirements of the text and the academic positions on every biblical issue are decidedly secular. I don't think I can add much to the point I was making except to say that this argument has itself been an example of the issue of missing or rejected narrative content under dogmatically motivated interpretations.
They are not traditional or conservative, except insomuch as they are traditional to your faith, and your subsect of your faith. I think that does the stories a disservice, is all. You read it, as you apparently must, as a simple story about Some Guy predicting the future of your god. I read it and connect with the author and even let myself imagine what that author would have felt if he'd seen the summation of the moment that lead to the narratives construction. In the one telling, it's just a declaration about some other thing, some other religion..even. In the other, it's one part of a complex and difficult time in the history of the culture telling the story.
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