in written rather than in oral form, but may have been supplemented by oral teaching. The book of Daniel was so widely accepted that it eventually became part of the Hebrew Bible. This should perhaps warn us against identifying the authors too closely with any sectarian group such as the founders of the Qumran sect, although the book was copied at Qumran and has numerous points of contact with the scrolls (cf. the use of such terms as pesher and raz, the use of maśkîl as title for an office, and