weighing the evidence carefully, must feel impelled to take quite a different view of the situation. Certain textual difficulties will be encountered, it is true, but not such as are of a serious nature. We shall give a rather extended treatment of the case because the whole approach to the Book of Daniel is determined by an interpreter’s attitude toward the text; and also because the critical claims to the contrary are rather positively advanced and rather extensively elaborated. For a more detailed
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