LITERATURE.--Ball in the _Speaker's Apocr._ ii. 305 sqq.; Rothstein in Kautzsch's _Apocr. und Pseud._ i. 173 sqq.; Schürer,³ _Gesch._ iii. 332 sqq. (R. H. C.)
[1] Four personages of the name of Daniel appear in the Old Testament: (1) the patriarch of Ezekiel (see above); (2) a son of David (1 Chron. iii. 1); (3) a Levite contemporary with Ezra (Ezra viii. 2; Neh. x. 6); (4) our Daniel.
[7] The account in chap. ii. of the promotion of Daniel to be governor of Babylon, as a reward for his correct interpretation of Nebuchadrezzar's dream, is very probably an imitation of the story of Joseph in Gen. xl-xli. The points of resemblance are very striking. In both accounts, we have a young Hebrew raised by the favour of a heathen king to great political prominence, owing to his extraordinary God-given ability to interpret dreams. In both versions, the heathen astrologers make the first attempt to solve the difficulty, which results in failure, whereupon the pious Israelite, being summoned to the royal presence, in both cases through the friendly intervention of a court official, triumphantly explains the mystery to the king's satisfaction (cf. Prince, _Dan._ p. 29).
[8] See Bevan, _Dan._ 28-40, on the Hebrew and Aramaic of Daniel.
[9] According to Lagarde, _Mitteilungen_, iv. 351 (1891); also Gött, _Gelehrte Anzeigen_ (1891), 497-520.
[10] The latest connected Babylonian inscription is that of Antiochus Soter (280-260 B.C.), but the language was probably spoken until Hellenic times; cf. Gutbrod, _Zeitschr. für Assyriol._ vi. 27.
[12] Bertholdt, Dan. 15; Franz Delitzsch, in Herzog, _Realencyklopädie_, 2nd ed., iii. 470.
[13] Bevan, _Dan._ 27 ff.; Prince, _Dan._ 13.
[14] For this whole discussion, see Prince, _Dan._ 15 ff.
[15] The investigations of Haug, Spiegel and Windischmann show that this was a real Zoroastrian doctrine.
[17] Certain tablets published by Strassmaier, bearing date continuously from Nabonidus to Cyrus, show that neither Belshazzar nor "Darius the Mede" could have had the title "king of Babylon." See Driver, _Introduction_,[3] xxii.
[19] Prince, _Dan._ 19-20, 140, 155, 179 ff.
[20] That "Messiah" or "Anointed One" was used of the High-Priest is seen from Lev. x, 3, v. 16.