The prophet Daniel, as chief counselor to the Persian king Darius, aroused the envy of the other royal ministers. Conspiring against the young Hebrew, they forced the king into condemning Daniel to a den of lions. The following dawn Darius, anxious about his friend, had the stone that sealed the entrance rolled away to […]
The Dead Sea Scrolls The biblical Book of Daniel has often been the subject of later additions and adaptations. The Septuagint Daniel, for instance, contains several additions found in Greek Bibles that were not part of the Hebrew original. Scholars have identified a variety of Qumran texts as pseudo-Danielic because they resemble the biblical book […]
Greco-Roman Period 13This is a copy of the letter- ‘The Great King, Artaxerxes, writes the following to the governors of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia and to the officials under them- 2 ‘Having become ruler of many nations and master of the whole world (not elated with presumption of authority but […]