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Welcome to the 10th ever episode of the Onscript podcast here today with Dr. Brennan Breed of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, and author of Nomatic Text, a theory of biblical reception, published by Indiana University Press.

Brennan, thanks for joining Onscript.

Thank you for having me, Matt.

I'm very grateful to be here.

Brendan, 2014 was quite a publishing year for you.

You had, was that the year you published your Old Testament Library commentary with Carol Newsom on Daniel?

Yes.

And in fact, it's Carol Newsom's Daniel Old Testament Library Commentary with Carol Newsom on Daniel? Yes. And in fact, it's Carol Newsom's Daniel Old Testament Library Commentary with me, to be specific. But yes, yeah, but it just, it's just the,

you know, the vaguerities of publishing that things work out, you know, that kind of coming out at the

same time, even though I worked at them at different times. But yeah, they kind of all ended up coming out at once. Yeah, well, congrats on both publications. And while the main focus is on

nomadic texts in this interview, it would be nice to hear what you consider some of the more

significant contributions of this recent Daniel commentary. Thanks. So, yeah, the Daniel commentary,

I mean, so Carol Newsom is amazing. And she was my, my Dr. Moutur. So I love her and I'm excited to see whatever she publishes. And her work on Daniel is great. There's some very cool historical work there, especially some of her work on Daniel 7 and how it fits into the overall progression of the book

and some of the redaction theories that she's working with there.

Some of her thought about the Hellenistic world and so on and how it relates to Daniel is very exciting and excellent.

My work is to add a little bit of reception history to the end of each chapter or each section of the book and just explore some of the things that the text has done since people have understood it to be kind of outside of the realm of biblical scholars. What's it done? So starting with the Hellenistic world and moving on. And that was really exciting and really fun. I'm just very grateful for that Carol asked me to be a part of that project.

One of the questions I had was whether or not you and Carol agree on the same date for the end of the world?

Yes, yes, right.

We just follow Harold camping as he moves up in time every date that he continues to propose. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, I think I think the final quote, the final actually words of the book, the commentary on Daniel, are from the raealians, a group of UFO extraordinaire folks who somehow believe that the book of Daniel helps them

understand how space aliens are talking to us about the future. And as they say, the moment is now.

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