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Daniel has produced a good deal of controversial debate, especially regarding its date and authorship and its apocalyptic character. In this study guide, Philip R. Davies carefully notes and evaluates the scholarly issues pertinent to this debate. Emphasis is placed on the literary and theological aspects of the book, which have been comparatively neglected, but which reflect the concerns and...

literature from Palestine—show that its descriptions of the closing moments of history were adopted as a model for eschatological description and reapplied to yet future events; its references were reinterpreted so that it could still address the future. What Daniel 9 did to Jeremiah, others did to Daniel. The Synoptic ‘apocalypse’ of Mark 13 and its parallels are the best-known example of such reapplication (Matthew showing the closest dependence on the text of Daniel). The Christian Church subsequently
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