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John J. Collins’ Daniel is the most comprehensive English-language commentary on the visionary prophet in 65 years. In it, the author situates the Old Testament in its historical context and offers a full explanation of the text, especially its religious imagery. Five hundred pages of information are yours with this single resource.

pap6QDan: 8:16–17(?), 20–21(?); 10:8–16; 11: 33–36, 38. There are also two quotations from Daniel in 4QFlor (4Q 174) col. 2, lines 3, 4a. The passages in question are Dan 12:10* and 11:32*. Both show variants from the MT.17 All twelve chapters of the Hebrew-Aramaic book are, then, represented, the first eleven in the Daniel scrolls and the twelfth in the Florilegium. The Qumran fragments attest the same combination of Hebrew and Aramaic as the MT. The shift from Hebrew to Aramaic at 2:4b*
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