db76 this book provides us with our most explicit


evidence
that the Son of Man
as a divine-human Redeemer arose
by Jesus' time from reading the Book of Daniel.

Chapter 46 of the book actually provides us with an exciting demonstration of the process of that reading.

We can see there how the chapter of Daniel has been used in the making of a new "myth," in the case of the Similitudes;
for other Jews, no doubt, the myth of the Messiah formed in the same way.

The interpretative process that we observe in this case is an early form of the type of Jewish biblical interpretation later known as midrash.

Although a whole library could (& has been) written on midrash, for the present purposes it will be sufficient to define it as a mode of biblical reading that brings disparate passages and verses together in the elaboration of new narratives. It is something like the old game of ana-grams in which the players look at words or texts and seek to form new words and texts out of the letters that are there.

The rabbis who produced the midrashic way of reading considered the Bible (as) one enormous signifying system, ANY part of which could be taken as commenting on or supplementing any other part. They were thus able to make new stories out of fragments of older ones (from the Bible itself), via a kind of anagrams writ large; the new stories, which build closely on the biblical narratives but expand and modify them as well, were considered the equals of the biblical stories themselves.

A major exegetical work to demonstrate that this chapter is constructed
as a midrash on Daniel 7:13-14 has been done,
which shows carefully how many biblical verses
and echoes there are
in the chapter
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