recognizes that both the OG and the MT are independent developments from an earlier Aramaic Vorlage that is no longer extant (Ulrich 1988, 107–8; J. Collins 216–21; Henze 1999, 40). In addition to the OG, clues to the prehistory of Dan 4 come from texts relating to the last Babylonian king, Nabonidus. Already early in the twentieth century, on the basis of new cuneiform documents from Mesopotamia, scholars had proposed that behind Dan 4 was a story originally told about Nabonidus and only subsequently