The Book of Daniel (Anchor Bible Commentaries)

by L Hartman (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $36.36

  Written as resistance literature, to strengthen and console loyal Jews of the second century BC who had to endure religious, economic, and social oppression at the hands of Antiochus I. This book includes the famous incident of 'the handwriting on the wall' and recounts the four vivid dream-visions or apocalypses which, through symbols and signs.