Category: History - Ancient

The three additions to Daniel, a study

These Additions differ from the other Apocryphal books, except the "rest of" Esther, in not claiming to be separate works, but appearing as supplements to a canonical book. The Song of the Three Children takes its assumed place between vv. 23 and 24 of Dan. iii.; the History o...

Chapters

7. Chapter 7

Odes at the end; also they are in the Turin Psalter, though omitted in the Veronese (Swete's LXX). As they are found, with a little difference in the Ο´ text, they may have fall...

8. Chapter 8

N.B.--It is not clear why the 'heading' or 'contents' in the A.V. _begins_ with v. 16. _Cf._ the heading of Bel and the Dragon for a similar ignoring of the early verses, as als...

12. Chapter 12

of address by the conquered Babylonians to Cyrus their conqueror. Probably some tumultous rising took place, which the king, a true oriental monarch, pacified at the expense of...

5. Chapter 5

29-68. The Song of praise itself, which may be subdivided thus: God directly addressed in blessing (29-34); after all God's works, celestial objects are addressed, including Ang...

10. Chapter 10

Βήλ καὶ Δράκων is the usual title of this booklet. It is obviously derived from the names of the two idols destroyed in the two portions of the story. But Cod. Chis. has the cur...

9. Chapter 9

also that Susanna was a widow after a married life of a few days only (v. 5), a statement to which neither Greek version lends any countenance. In fact, v. 63 (Θ) supposes Joaki...

11. Chapter 11

The text of A appears to have slightly better Greek (vv. 9, 10, 19, 21, 27); but the form μαχαίρης (occurs in Heb. xi. 34 in A), if not a slip,[67] seems Ionic (Wordsworth's _Gr...

4. Chapter 4

These Additions differ from the other Apocryphal books, except the "rest of" Esther, in not claiming to be separate works, but appearing as supplements to a canonical book. The...

27. Chapter 27

[5] Perhaps in default of better explanation the "earth" verse may have been put into the third person in order to mark the transition from things celestial to those terrestrial.

6. Chapter 6

To base this separation, however, on a supposed disagreement between v. 15 (38) and vv. 31 (53), 62 (84), is certainly insufficient cause, as Ball points out (307b), for assigni...

24. Chapter 24

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23. Chapter 23

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3. Chapter 3

26. Chapter 26

1. Chapter 1

2. Chapter 2

17. Chapter 17

15. Chapter 15

19. Chapter 19

14. Chapter 14

18. Chapter 18

21. Chapter 21

13. Chapter 13

20. Chapter 20

22. Chapter 22

16. Chapter 16

25. Chapter 25