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Offering an extraordinary window on centuries of dialogue between the Bible and literature, this superb, unprecedented, and award-winning reference work is designed to help the modern reader understand how biblical motifs, concepts, names, quotations, and allusions have been transmitted through exegetical tradition and used by authors of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present. The...

Daniel has been regarded as a prophet not only of the birth of Christ, but also of the end of the world and the advent of Antichrist and the millennium which precedes the final judgment. The prophecies of the second half of the book of Daniel, along with the dream of the composite statue in chap. 2, exercise considerable influence on NT authors (cf. N. Perrin, The New Testament, An Introduction [1974], 65-72, 76-79, 84), and on the whole tradition of apocalyptic prophecy. While the name Antichrist
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