Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Hermeneia | Herm)

by John J. Collins

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 1993

Overview

The most comprehensive English-language commentary on Daniel in 65 years. John Collins situates the Old Testament in its historical context and offers a full explanation of the text, especially its religious imagery.

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Key Features

• Includes a number of valuable insights
• Presents a detailed and authoritative interpretation
• Provides a fantastic commentary for students, teachers, scholars, and professors

Contents

Top Highlights

“According to the consensus of modern critical scholarship, the stories about Daniel and his friends are legendary in character, and the hero himself most probably never existed.” (Page 1)

“This is, in fact, the only generally accepted reference to resurrection in the Hebrew Bible” (Page 392)

“On the whole, the Qumran discoveries provide powerful evidence of the antiquity of the textual tradition of the MT” (Page 3)

“extends the duration of the desolation to seventy weeks of years, or ten jubilees” (Page 352)

“Nehemiah, who was cupbearer to a Persian king, was almost certainly a eunuch.” (Page 136)

Praise for the Print Edition

The authors represent not only the best scholarship of our period but they also have the kind of interpretive energy and creativeness that will influence significantly the whole field of biblical studies and the study of religion in this country and elsewhere.

—Amos N. Wilder, The Divinity School, Harvard University, Emeritus

We have for too long been lacking a commentary series with adequate historical, critical and history of religions material. the undertaking of the project of filling this need is in itself a genuine accomplishment.

—Gerhard Friedrich, Kiel University

Product Details

• Title: Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel
• Author: John J. Collins
• Series: Hermeneia
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 1993
• Logos Release Date: 2006
• Pages: 500
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. O.T. › Relation to the Old Testament; Bible. O.T. Daniel › Commentaries; Apocalyptic literature › History and criticism
• ISBNs: 9780800660406, 0800660404
• Resource ID: LLS:HRMNEIA27DA
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-24T16:25:23Z

About John J. Collins

John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. His books include Jewish Wisdom in the Hellenistic Age; Apocalypse, Prophecy, and Pseudepigraphy: On Jewish Apocalyptic Literature; The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul; and, most recently, What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues. Collins serves as general editor of the Anchor Yale Bible and Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. He is on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of Judaism and Dead Sea Discoveries. Previously, he has served as President of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association.