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Signs and Wonders: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel is unavailable, but you can change that!

From start to finish, Robert A. Anderson’s commentary depicts Daniel as an exemplar of loyalty to God, a faithful Jew in an alien culture. As such Daniel is a source of inspiration for those who find themselves in parallel circumstances—beset by the disadvantages of their subservient position, faced with the threat of dire physical suffering and even death, and enticed to apostasy. Like Joseph in...

The significance of ‘And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede …’ is not at all clear. What is clear, however, is that the words which immediately follow should be attached to 10:21. Gabriel’s support is not for Darius the Mede, but for his fellow angelic cohort, Michael. The words in question are usually declared to be a gloss, intended as an introduction to what a later editor understood as a distinctly separate vision. The formula
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