International experts offer fresh insights into: (1) Review of Scholarship and Context; (2) Near Eastern Milieu; (3) Interpretation of Specific Passages; (4) Social Setting; (5) Literary Context, Including Qumran; (6) Reception in Judaism and Christianity; (7) Textual History; and (8) Theology of Daniel.

Die Geschichte der Daniel-Auslegung in Judentum, Christentum und Islam ist Gegenstand dieses Bandes, dessen Themenspektrum bei dem biblischen Danielbuch selbst beginnt und dann über die Danielrezeption im hellenistischen Judentum, im Markusevangelium und in der Alten Kirche über Vertreter des Mittelalters und der Reformationszeit bis hin zu Isaac Newton reicht. Texte

This volume contains the papers presented to a symposium organized by the Theological Faculty of the University of Groningen on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Adam S. van der Woude, former Professor of Old Testament and Early Judaism and former head of the Qumran Institute at the same

Understand Daniel as never before. Drawing from his research in ancient Jewish sources and knowledge of the original language, Doukhan recreates the world of Babylon, explains obscure allusions, and finds hidden patterns within the prophecies that clarify their meaning.

This unique study of the theology of the book of Daniel examines the cultic motif within the book as it relates to space and time. Numerous references and allusions to cult are investigated with linguistic, literary, and contextual analyses. The findings are then related to the main theological themes of