Isho‛dad of Merv

Commentary on Daniel

Ishoʿdad of Merv’s (fl. 850 AD) Commentary on Daniel provides an important witness to East Syriac exegetical technique. In it Ishoʿdad typically emphasizes an historical reading of the Old Testament above any kind of allegorical, spiritual, or even Christological interpretation. Most notable is Ishoʿdad’s belief that the Maccabees fulfilled several of the visions described in the book of Daniel, even including the Heavenly Kingdom of Daniel chapters 2, 7, and 8, and the physical resurrection of Daniel 12. These interpretations dramatically depart from most eastern and western commentators who considered Daniel’s visions to portend the rise of the Roman Empire and the advent of Christ. Ishoʿdad’s commentary is translated here into English for the first time.

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-4632-4278-7

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Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity62

Publication Date: Aug 23,2022

Interior Color: Black

Trim Size: 7 x 10

Page Count: 106

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-4278-7

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Ishoʿdad of Merv’s (fl. 850 AD) Commentary on Daniel provides an important witness to East Syriac exegetical technique. In it Ishoʿdad typically emphasizes an historical reading of the Old Testament above any kind of allegorical, spiritual, or even Christological interpretation. Most notable is Ishoʿdad’s belief that the Maccabees fulfilled several of the visions described in the book of Daniel, even including the Heavenly Kingdom of Daniel chapters 2, 7, and 8, and the physical resurrection of Daniel 12. These interpretations dramatically depart from most eastern and western commentators who considered Daniel’s visions to portend the rise of the Roman Empire and the advent of Christ. Ishoʿdad’s commentary is translated here into English for the first time.

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	Contributor	Biography
	T.Schmidt	T. C. Schmidt (Yale PhD) is the Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Fairfield University. He has broad interests that touch upon the historical Jesus, the formation of the New Testament, patristic eschatological thought, and the history of Christianity in Syriac and Arabic contexts. He has published the following volumes: Hippolytus of Rome: Commentary on Daniel and ‘Chronicon’ (Gorgias, 2017); Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary (Fordham, 2019, with Stephen Davis and Shawqi Talia); Revelation and its Eastern Commentators: Making the New Testament in the Early Christian World (Cambridge, 2021); Isho’dad of Merv: Commentary on Daniel (Gorgias, 2022); Cassiodorus, St. Gregory the Great, and Anonymous Greek Scholia: Writings on the Apocalypse (CUA, 2022, with Francis X. Gumerlock and Mark DelCogliano). He is currently preparing a monograph for Oxford University Press on the ancient Jewish historian Josephus and his description of Jesus.

Introduction ...................................................................................................... ix
Life and Works of Ishoʿdad of Merv ............................................................ ix
Themes and Sources in the Commentary on Daniel ..................................... x
Interpreting the Prophecies of the Book of Daniel ...................................... xi
Text and Translation ................................................................................ xix
Manuscripts .............................................................................................. xx
Abbreviations ........................................................................................... xx
Bibliography ............................................................................................. xx
Outline ................................................................................................... xxv
Text and Translation .......................................................................................... 1
Index of Biblical References .............................................................................. 77

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