This commentary focuses on the Hebrew and Aramaic text of Daniel, which features several historical notations that position its characters in specific times and places. Beginning in 1:1, these markers direct readers from the beginning of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II1 of Babylon in 605 BC (1:1) to the third year of Cyrus the Great2 of Persia’s rule in c. 537–536 BC (10:1). Along the way, the book stops in Nebuchadnezzar’s second year (c. 603–602 BC; 2:1), in
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