Harris on Daniel 249-256

• What does the Greek word apokalypsis mean, and what does this literary category describe?
• What are some other apocalyptic works?
• Eschatology concerns two things: the Day of Yahweh and the ultimate fate of individual persons. Elaborate on the book's explanation of these two things.
• Why, according to the textbook, do the writers choose the literary form of Apocalypse instead of prophecy? How are they different?
• Describe the "sociological background of apocalyptic writings."
• What "mantic arts," once forbidden by Dueteronomy, has Daniel mastered?
• Explain one of the three types of dualism characteristic of Apocalyptic writing.
• Besides the three types of dualism, what are two other characteristics of apocalyptic writing?
• Why did biblical writers place Daniel among the Writings instead of the Prophets (as Christians did)?
• How is Daniel "like Joseph"?
• How is Daniel "like and unlike" Esther and Mordecai?
• In what two distinctive ways is Daniel endangered under Babylonian rule?
• Daniel is called on to interpret two dreams and one set of cryptic signs. Explain one of these three episodes.
• Ezekiel used "son of man" to designate humans, and Mark's Gospel uses the same term to refer to Jesus. According to the textbook, how is this term (translated as "like a human being" or "one in human form" in NRSV) used in Daniel?
• What, according to the text, do the "prophecies" in chapters 9 and 10 concern?
• In chapter 12, after history ends and Michael defeats the enemies of Israel, what happens to the "many"? Who are they?

Daniel

• Writing on the wall
• Lion, bear, leopard, and 10-horned beast
• Michael
• Gabriel
• Book, "opened" and 'sealed" (7:9, 12:1, 12:4)