A Short Commentary on the Book of Daniel: For the Use of Students (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Bevan, Anthony Ashley

9780265227596: A Short Commentary on the Book of Daniel: For the Use of Students (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265227593 ISBN 13: 9780265227596

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2017

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Excerpt from A Short Commentary on the Book of Daniel: For the Use of Students

HE main object of this work is to assist those who are entering upon the study of the language and text of the Book of Daniel, by affording them such philological information as they are most likely to need. Since however philology can never be separated from history, I have found it necessary to devote considerable space to the treatment of historical ques tions. In the history of religion the Book of Daniel occupies a very important, perhaps a unique, position, but the working out of this subject belongs rather to the historian than to the commentator. Hence the relation in which this Book stands to the Prophets on the one hand and to the later Apocalypses on the other could not here be examined at any great length. Discussions upon speculative theology or philosophy I have studiously avoided, as I cannot but think that when introduced into exegetical works they serve rather to obscure than to elucidate the real matters at issue.

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