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In many ways, the Old Testament book of Daniel is an enigma. It consists of two different kinds of material: stories about Judean exiles working in the court of pagan kings (chapters 1–6) and accounts of visions experienced by one of these exiles (chapters 7–12). It is written in two languages, Hebrew and Aramaic, and the language division does not match the subject division. Whether the book’s...

Montgomery (1927: 12) comments that the MT of Daniel has an unusual amount of variation both in the K and the Q and in variant readings of the MS. Many of the variants correspond to those found in the VSS. Eight fragmentary MSS of Daniel have been identified from Qumran. The oldest of these, 4QDanc, comes from the late second century BC (Ulrich 1987: 17), and the most recent from the last phase of the occupation of Qumran in the first century
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