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The UBS Handbooks are detailed commentaries providing valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the books of the Bible. They are prepared primarily to assist Bible translators as they carry out the important task of putting God’s Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. The text is discussed verse by verse, and is accompanied by running text in at...

Bel (a form of the Canaanite divine name Baal, meaning “lord”) was a title of Marduk, the patron god of the Babylonian state (see the comments on LetJer 41). In the ancient Babylonian creation account, Enuma Elish, creation comes about because of a conflict between Marduk and Tiamat, the force of chaos, who is sometimes represented as a snake or dragon-like creature. In this chapter Daniel prevails over two central figures in Babylonian religion,
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