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Document Details : Title: Greek culture and Jewish Piety Subtitle: The Clash and the Fourth Beast of Daniel 7 Author(s): CARAGOUNIS, C.C. Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Volume: 65 Issue: 4 Date: December 1989 Pages: 280-308 DOI: 10.2143/ETL.65.4.556422 Abstract : Two interpretations of the Fourth Beast/Kingdom of Daniel 7 have to this day held the field: the Roman and the Greek. In this study I will not be concerned so much with presenting arguments for the one or the other of these interpretations, as with indicating a new line of approach to the problem of the identification of the Fourth Beast/Kingdom. My starting-point is the identification of the Gourth Kingdom with the Greek Empire, and I seek here to indicate (a) the reasons which led the author of Dan 7 to make this identification, (b) to do it in the way which he did it, and briefly (c) the consequences of such an identification for historical developments. The results of this study have, of course, direct relevance for Daniel's conception of the fifth Kingdom -the Kingdom of God- but this theme will not be treated in this study. |
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