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The Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series provides up-to-date, evangelical scholarship on the Old and New Testaments. Each volume is designed to equip pastors and Christian leaders with exegetical and theological knowledge to better understand and apply God’s Word by presenting the message of each passage as well as an overview of other issues surrounding the text. In this volume, Thompson and...

THE BOOK OF DANIEL fascinates people and rightly so. It is sui generis in the Old Testament and even among its noncanonical competitors (Knibb 2001:34). But that assertion must be defined and qualified in various ways, for it is also like other books in the Old Testament: The Joseph narrative in Genesis and portions of Esther are similar to the first six chapters of Daniel; certain prophetic passages (e.g., Isa 24–27; Zech 9–14) have the ambiance and style (basic genre) of
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