of a fragment of Chronicles at Qumran renders a Maccabean date virtually impossible for any part of Chronicles.”6 But critical scholars have refused to draw the same conclusion in the case of Daniel even though the evidence is identical. For example, in the work cited above by Brownlee, he avers the 165 B.C. date in spite of the evidence. His refusal to allow the evidence to lead him to the more probable conclusion that Daniel was composed before the Maccabean era is the more astonishing because