Four kingdom motifs before and beyond the book of Daniel / edited by Andrew B. Perrin, Loren T. Stuckenbruck ; with the assistance of Shelby Bennett, Matthew Hama.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction to the Four Kingdoms as a Time Bound, Timeless, and Timely Historiographical Mechanism and Literary Motif / Andrew B. Perrin -- The Four Kingdoms and Other Chronological Conceptions in the Book of Daniel / Michael Segal -- Five Kingdoms, and Talking Beasts: Some Old Greek Variants in Relation to Daniel’s Four Kingdoms / Ian Young -- The Four (Animal) Kingdoms: Understanding Empires as Beastly Bodies / Alexandria Frisch -- The Apocalypse of Weeks: Periodization and Tradition-Historical Context / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- Expressions of Empire and Four Kingdoms Patterns in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls / Andrew B. Perrin -- The Four Kingdoms Motif and Sibylline Temporality in Sibylline Oracles 4 / Olivia Stewart Lester -- The Generation of Iron and the Final Stumbling Block: The Present Time in Hesiod’s Works and Days 106–201 and Barnabas 4 / Kylie Crabbe -- The Four Kingdoms of Daniel in Hippolytus’s Commentary on Daniel / Katharina Bracht -- Persia, Rome and the Four Kingdoms Motif in the Babylonian Talmud / Geoffrey Herman -- The Four Kingdoms of Daniel in the Early Mediaeval Apocalyptic Tradition / Lorenzo DiTommaso -- The Four Kingdom Schema and the Seventy Weeks in the Arabic Reception of Daniel / Miriam L. Hjälm -- Conflicting Traditions: The Interpretation of Daniel’s Four Kingdoms in the Ethiopic Commentary (Tergwāmē) Tradition / James R. Hamrick -- The Politics of Time: Epistemic Shifts and the Reception History of the Four Kingdoms Schema / Brennan Breed.