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Daniel: An Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Daniel is a difficult book. But it is a book about the meaning of history, and people today need its message. The whole church needs reassurance, especially in view of Marxist claims to be able by human effort to introduce a utopian world government. “When the church lets part of its message go by default people look elsewhere for a substitute,” writes Joyce Baldwin. “All the more reason, then,...

case of Rechabites and Nazirites, and there is no indication that Daniel and his friends were in either of those categories. Thus the Levitical food laws do not satisfactorily explain Daniel’s resolve. All food in Babylon or Assyria was ritually unclean (Ezek. 4:13; Hos. 9:3, 4) and from that there was no escape. The book itself provides the needed clue in 11:26, where the rare word pat bag recurs: ‘Even those who eat his rich food shall be his undoing.’ By eastern standards to share a meal was to
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