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GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE LAGIDÆ, PTOLEMIES,
AND SELEUCIDÆ 334

AUTHORITIES CONSULTED

COMMENTARIES AND TREATISES

The chief Rabbinic Commentaries were those of Rashi († 1105); Abn Ezra († 1167); Kimchi († 1240); Abrabanel († 1507).[1]

The chief Patristic Commentary is that by St. Jerome. Fragments are preserved of other Commentaries by Origen, Hippolytus, Ephræm Syrus, Julius Africanus, Theodoret, Athanasius, Basil, Eusebius, Polychronius, etc. (Mai, _Script. Vet. Nov. Coll._, i.).

The Scholastic Commentary attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas is spurious.

The chief Commentaries of the Reformation period are those by:--

Luther, _Auslegung d. Proph. Dan._, 1530-46 (_Opp. Germ._, vi., ed. Walch.)

Œcolampadius, _In Dan. libri duo_. Basle, 1530.

Melancthon, _Comm. in Dan._ Wittenburg, 1543.

Calvin, _Prælect. in Dan._ Geneva, 1563.

Modern Commentaries are numerous; among them we may mention those by:--

Newton, _Observations upon the Prophecies_. London, 1733.

Bertholdt, _Daniel_. Erlangen, 1806-8.

Rosenmüller, _Scholia_. 1832.

Hävernick. 1832 and 1838.

Hengstenberg. 1831.

There are Commentaries by Von Lengerke, 1835; Maurer, 1838; Hitzig, 1850; Ewald, 1867; Kliefoth, 1868; Keil, 1869; Kranichfeld, 1868; Kamphausen, 1868; Meinhold (_Kurzgefasster Kommentar_), 1889; Auberlen, 1857; Archdeacon Rose and Prof. J. M. Fuller (_Speaker's Commentary_), 1876; Rev. H. J. Deane (Bishop Ellicott's _Commentary_), 1884; Zöckler (Lange's _Bibelwerk_), 1889; A. A. Bevan (_Cambridge_), 1893; Meinhold, _Beiträge_, 1888.

The latest Commentary which has appeared is that by Hauptpastor Behrmann, in the _Handkommentar z. Alten Testament._ Göttingen, 1894.

Discussions in the various Introductions (_Einleitungen_, etc.) by Bleek, De Wette, Keil, Stähelin, Reuss, Cornely, Dr. S. Davidson, Kleinert, Cornill, König, etc.

LIVES OF DANIEL

Pseudo-Epiphanius, _Opera_, ii. 243.

H. J. Deane, _Daniel_ (Men of the Bible). 1892.

THERE ARE ARTICLES ON DANIEL IN

Winer's _Realwörterbuch_, Second Edition.

Delitzsch, in Herzog's _Real-Encyclopädie_.

Graf, in Schenkel's _Bibel-Lexicon_, i. 564.

Bishop Westcott, in Dr. W. Smith's _Bible Dictionary_, New Edition. 1893.

Hamburger, _Real-Encyclopädie_, ii., _s.v._ "Geheimlehre," p. 265; _s.vv._ "Daniel," pp. 223-225; and _Heiliges Schriftthum_.

TREATISES

Russel Martineau, _Theological Review_. 1865.

Prof. Margoliouth, _The Expositor_. April 1890.

Prof. J. M. Fuller, _The Expositor_, Third Series, vols. i., ii.

T. K. Cheyne, _Encyclopædia Britannica_, vi. 803.

Prof. Sayce, _The Higher Criticism and the Monuments_. 1894.

Prof. S. R. Driver, _Introduction to the Literature of the Old Testament_, pp. 458-483. 1891.

Prof. S. Leathes, in _Book by Book_, pp. 241-251.

C. von Orelli, _Alttestamentliche Weissagung_, p. 454. Wien, 1882.

Meinhold, _Die Geschichtlichen Hagiographen_ (Strack and Zöckler, _Kurzgefasster Kommentar_, 1889).

Meinhold, _Erklärung des Buches Daniels_. 1889.

TREATISES OR DISCUSSIONS BY

Dr. Pusey, _Daniel the Prophet_. 1864.

T. R. Birks, _The Later Visions of Daniel_. 1846.

Ellicott, _Horæ Apocalypticæ_. 1844.

Tregelles, _Remarks on the Prophetic Visions of Daniel_. 1852.

Hilgenfeld, _Die Propheten Ezra u. Daniel_. 1863.

Baxmann, _Stud. u. Krit._, iii. 489 ff. 1863.

Desprez, _Daniel_. 1865.

Hofmann, _Weissagung und Erfüllung_, i. 276-316.

Kuenen, _Prophets and Prophecy in Israel_, E. Tr. 1877.

Ewald, _Die Propheten des Alten Bundes_, iii. 298. 1868.

Hilgenfeld, _Die jüdische Apokalyptic_. 1857.

Lenormant, _La Divination chez les Chaldeans_. 1875.

Fabre d'Envieu, _Le livre du Prophète Daniel_. 1888.

Hebbelyuck, _De auctoritate libr. Danielis_. 1887.

Köhler, _Bibl. Geschichte_. 1893.

INSCRIPTIONS AND MONUMENTS

Babylonian, Persian, and Median inscriptions bearing on the Book of Daniel are given by:--

Schrader, _Keilinschriften und d. A. T._, E. Tr., 1885-88; and in _Records of the Past_. See too _Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum_.

Sayce, _The Higher Criticism_, pp. 497-537.

These inscriptions have been referred to also by Cornill, Nestle, Nöldeke, Lagarde, etc.

HISTORIES AND OTHER BOOKS

Sketches and fragments of many ancient historians:--

Josephus, _Antiquitates Judaicæ_, ll. x., xi., xii.

The Books of Maccabees.

Prideaux, _Connection of the Old and New Testaments_, ed. Oxford. 1828.

Ewald, _Gesch. des Volkes Israel_. 1843-50.

Grätz, _Gesch. der Juden_, Second Edition. 1863.

Jost, _Gesch. d. Judenthums und seinen Sekten_, i. 90-116. Leipzig, 1857.

Herzfeld, _Gesch. des Volkes Israel_, ii. 416. 1863.

Van Oort, _Bible for Young People_, E. Tr. 1877.

Kittel, _Gesch. d. Hebräer_, ii. 1892.

Schürer, _Gesch. d. jüdischen Volkes_. Leipzig, 1890.

Jahn, _Hebrew Commonwealth_, E. Tr. 1828.

Droysen, _Gesch. d. Hellenismus_, ii. 211.

E. Meyer, _Gesch. d. Alterthums_, i.

SPECIAL TREATISES

Delitzsch, _Messianische Weissagangen_. Leipzig, 1890.

Riehm, _Die Messianische Weissagung_. Gotha, 1875.

Knabenbauer, _Comment in Daniel. prophet., Lament., et Baruch_. 1891.

Kuenen, _Religion of Israel_, E. Tr. 1874.

Bludau, _De Alex. interpe. Danielis indole_. 1891.

Nöldeke, _D. Alttest. Literatur_. 1868.

Fraidl, _Exegese d. 70 Wochen Daniels_. 1883.

Menken, _Die Monarchienbild_. 1887.

Kamphausen, _Das Buch Daniel in die neuere Geschichtsforschung_. Leipzig, 1893.

Lennep, _De Zeventig Jaarweken van Daniel_. Utrecht, 1888.

Dr. M. Joël, _Notizen zum Buche Daniel_. Breslau, 1873.

Derenbourg, _Les Mots grecs dans le Livre biblique de Daniel_. Mélanges Graux, 1888.

Cornill, _Die Siebzig Jahrwochen Daniels_. 1889.

Wolf, _Die Siebzig Wochen Daniels_. 1859.

Sanday, _Inspiration_ (Bampton Lectures). 1894.

Sayce, _Hibbert Lectures_. 1887.

Roszmann, _Die Makkabeische Erhebung_.

J. F. Hoffmann, _Antiochus IV_. (_Epiphanes_). 1873.

_Speaker's Commentary_ on Tobit, 1, 2 Maccabees, etc. 1888.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] The Commentary which passes as that of Saadia the Gaon is said to be spurious. His genuine Commentary only exists in manuscript.

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