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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...

The “Additions to Daniel” consist of three passages that are not found in the Hebrew Bible, but do appear in the Greek Bible as well as the Latin Vulgate. (The term “Hebrew Bible” is a bit imprecise here, since Dan 2:4b–7:28 is actually in Aramaic rather than Hebrew.) This expanded Daniel is considered canonical Scripture in the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Jews and Protestants do not accept them as canonical; Protestants include them as part of the Apocrypha