manuscripts of Daniel yields clues about its textual history. What did the earliest form of the book of Daniel look like? There are two witnesses, namely, the Hebrew/Aramaic text and the ancient Greek translation of an earlier Semitic Vorlage (prototype). The Hebrew/Aramaic text is commonly known as the Masoretic Text (MT). It was fixed by a group of scribes known as the Masoretes between the seventh and tenth centuries AD, yet its earliest textual witnesses come from much earlier centuries. Eight