The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: Daniel

by Samuel Rolles Driver

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

, 1900

Overview

A great amount of information is packed into this commentary on Daniel: history, authorship and date, a study on the person of Daniel, a comparison of Bible versions and commentaries, and extensive notes on various terms found in the book of Daniel. As Driver travels through Daniel, he explains the historical context of the book and provides Hebrew word studies at parts, also analyzing the prophecy included.

Key Features

• Verse-by-verse exegesis
• Contains helpful notes, indexes, and appendixes

Contents

Top Highlights

“Internal evidence demonstrates, with a cogency that cannot be resisted, that the Book of Daniel must have been written not earlier than c. 300 b.c., and in Palestine; and there are considerations which make it highly probable that it was, in fact, composed during the persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes, between b.c. 168 and 165.” (Page xlvii)

“can any ‘ten’ kingdoms be pointed to, as in any sense arising out of it?” (Page 98)

“describing Daniel’s visions, now begins (ch. 7–12)” (Page xiii)

Praise for the Print Edition

There are no better books in exposition of the different parts of Scripture than those contained in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. The series has long since established its claim to an honorable place in the front rank of first-rate commentaries; and the teacher or preacher who masters its volumes will be, like Apollos, mighty in the Scriptures.

—Church Sunday School Magazine

Product Details

• Title: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges: Daniel
• Author: S. R. Driver
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1900
• Pages: 232

About Samuel Rolles Driver

From JewishEncyclopedia.com

Samuel Rolles Driver

English Christian Hebraist; born at Southampton Oct. 2, 1846; regius professor of Hebrew (in succession to Pusey), and canon of Christ Church, Oxford, since 1883; member of the Old Testament Revision Company, 1876-84.

Together with T. K. Cheyne and Robertson Smith, Driver has been one of the foremost champions of Biblical criticism in England. Driver approached it from its linguistic side ("Jour. of Phil." 1882, pp. 201-236). His first contribution, "A Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew" (Oxford, 1874; 3d ed., 1892), has remained the most complete presentation of the subject...In matters of criticism Driver has always taken a conservative view, showing much moderation and sympathy with the orthodox position.

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Driver has edited two small rabbinical works: a commentary on Jeremiah and Ezekiel by Moses ben Sheshet, London, 1871, and one on Proverbs, attributed to Abraham ibn Ezra, Oxford, 1880. He has also been a collaborator on the second edition of Smith's "Bible Dictionary," on Hasting's "Dictionary of the Bible," and on Cheyne and Black's "Encyclopædia Biblica," and is coeditor, with Professors Brown and Briggs, of the Clarendon press edition of Gesenius.

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