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The Book of Daniel: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Daniel was written as resistance literature, to strengthen and console loyal Jews of the second century B.C. who had to endure religious, economic, and social oppression at the hands of Antiochus I. The inspiring stories in which Daniel and his companions Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego survive the ordeals of the lions’ den and the fiery furnace dramatize for believers of all time the...

in Eastern Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa—may also be faced with the military might and the civil and economic sanctions of the state. Yet despite a gnawing feeling of powerlessness and helplessness they can still maintain personal integrity and moral rectitude as well as a lively religious faith that can supply meaning and direction to an otherwise dismal and chaotic existence. To persons who are forced to choose between the demands of the state and the demands of God, all may appear lost
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