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- From: bthurman@unca.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.messianic
- Subject: 'the' interpreting of daniel
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.111610.1@unca.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:16:10 GMT
- Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
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- seems like an assumption lurks in talking about this or that interpretation as
- 'the christian interpretation', especially where Daniel's concerned.
- for decades it has been perfectly clear to me that the bar enosh 'son of man'
- figure in daniel 7 represents, not one personal entity like Jesus himself, but
- 'the people of the saints of the most high', as the revelatory interpretation
- itself in verses 16-18 seems so clearly to state. today many educated
- christians, despite the appeal of Yeshua to Daniel, recorded in the gospel,
- reject the authenticity of the writing outright. you know all of that, but
- what may not be known would be the understanding of thousands of christians
- with whom i was associated in Greece, whose official bible will have been the
- 'Old Greek Versions' commonly termed 'Septuagint' from the Aristeas story, and
- where the 70 weeks text remains a hotly disputed area among these Yeshuan
- Messianists! more careful students among them do not travel over the whole
- thing so rough shod as superficial students of scripture often do. you would
- find many of them much more thought provoking and questioning of trite
- assumptions like the 'day for a year' theory -- and at the same time, the more
- learned many of them are in the scriptures, the more they tend to tolerate a
- latitude of opinion within the christian camp. let me not over-idealize
- Hellenic christianism -- they do have their donnybrooks -- but in my own
- experience they seem to make less progress in selling, or wanting to sell,
- large followings on peculiar rapture slants (eschatological particularisms)
- than superficial american splinter groups do.
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