Daniel and friends at the Carlisle Indian school

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dc.contributor.author Miller, Robert D.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-07T11:34:30Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-07T11:34:30Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description.abstract This essay explores the first chapter of the Book of Daniel as an example of resistance against an empire. Using the experience of Native Americans, especially children at the Carlisle Residential Indian School, the tropes of naming, diet, and the body in Daniel 1 are read as a call to resistance and gamesmanship in the narrative environment of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the authorial context of the Selucid Hellenistic Empire. With reference to similar situations in South Africa and elsewhere, this reading of the story in Daniel 1 sees a promise of God’s support in religious fidelity accompanied by cultural code switching. en_US
dc.description.department Old Testament Studies en_US
dc.description.librarian dm2022 en_US
dc.description.uri https://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/stj/index en_US
dc.identifier.citation Miller II, Robert D.. Daniel and friends at the Carlisle Indian School. Stellenbosch Theological Journal 2021, vol. 7, no. 1, pp.1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/stj.2021.v7n1.a23. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2413-9467 (online)
dc.identifier.issn 2413-9459 (print)
dc.identifier.other 10.17570/stj.2021.v7n1.a23
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/87588
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Stellenbosch en_US
dc.rights © 2021 Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, Stellenbosch. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. en_US
dc.subject Book of Daniel en_US
dc.subject Postcolonial criticism en_US
dc.subject Shadrach en_US
dc.subject Meshach en_US
dc.subject Abednego en_US
dc.subject Antiochus persecution en_US
dc.subject Code switching en_US
dc.title Daniel and friends at the Carlisle Indian school en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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