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Who Is Daniel's Anachrony?

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In time order the most striking feature of the narrative is that the narrative has three anachrony. The story’s anachrony occurs in Daniel 6:10, 1, and 14. In the story anachrony in Daniel 6: 10, Daniel prayed to God. It is an internal heterodiegetic repeating analepsis. The temporal setting “three times” introduces the first analepsis “Daniel got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God.” This explains Daniel’s rebellion against the decree of Darius but his faithfulness to God and subsequently why God delivered him from the lions. The purpose of this anachrony is for story-telling drama, to place in the giving of Darius power over power right next to his inability to save Daniel and his casting of Daniel into the lion’s den and to reiterate the consequences or results of being faithful and …show more content…

Probably the purpose of this anachrony is for the story telling drama, to place the thought and actions of Darius next to the surprise and dismay discovery of the deliverance by Daniel by his God. So, all these analepsis have the characteristics of uniting the story in dramatized way.
Prolepsis occurs in Daniel 6: 14 where the narrator says that Darius set his mind on rescuing without any reference in the narrative of Darius activities warranting him that he was really ready to deliver Daniel. This is a mixed homodiegetic completing prolepsis. It serves to interpret Darius actions in the narrative which point in advance that he is a limited in his powers.
According to Fokkelman, “the narrator is not obliged to provide indications of narrated time, but he is quite capable of it.” The narrator of the story tells us explicitly that Daniel prayed to God, and Daniel was delivered and his God exalted which serves as an important point of

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