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A Critical Commentary on the Book of Daniel: Designed Especially for Students of the English Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Prince divides his commentary on the Book of Daniel into three parts: a general introduction to the book, a critical commentary, and a philological commentary reserved for the discussion of all the purely technical points. Includes four indices: of subjects, of Aramaic, Assyrian, and Hebrew words and stems.

1 The name of the coin, δαρεικός (Hebrew אֲדַרְכו̇ן) has been derived by some from the name Darius2, but it is extremely probable that there is no connection linguistically between the two. Putting aside all other difficulties, the form δαρεικός, if considered as an adjectival developement from Δαρεῖος, has no analogy. As Georg Hoffmann has pointed out, ZA. 2:, p. 53, forms like κεραμεικός, Εὐβοεικός come from κεραμεύς, Εὐβοεύς, etc., and not from an original -εῖος. The
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