CHAPTER I VISION OF THE FOUR WILD BEASTS 233 CHAPTER II THE RAM AND THE HE-GOAT 252 CHAPTER III THE SEVENTY WEEKS 268 CHAPTER IV INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCLUDING VISION 292 CHAPTER V AN ENIGMATIC PROPHECY PASSING INTO DETAILS OF THE REIGN OF ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES 299 CHAPTER VI THE EPILOGUE 319 APPENDIX APPROXIMATE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES 333 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_.