Biblical Reading and Reflections: June 24th (Daniel 3 & Acts 20:1-16)
Alastair's Adversaria
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The Imagen Two Is a Grassy Obelisk
This great image as a focal point for religious worship is an attempt to gather together the whole of babylon, both vertically and horizontally. The proportions seem wrong for a human figure. We would expect, if it were a human figure, for its breadth to be at least double what it is relative to the height. It has these grand lists of these officials, also later, of musical instruments,. Even the clothes of shadrach mishah and abednigo are repeated on several different occasions, often redundantly. This has a sort of chomedic or satirical effect. Daniel, chapter three makes a lot of use of repetition.
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