Daniel, Volume 30 (30) (Word Biblical Commentary)

✍ Scribed by Dr. John Goldingay, Nancy L. deClaisse-Walford (editor), Peter H. Davids (editor)

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 625
• Edition: Revised
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.

Overview of Commentary Organization

• Introduction--covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.
• Each section of the commentary includes:
• Pericope Bibliography--a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
• Translation--the author's own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.
• Notes--the author's notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.
• Form/Structure/Setting--a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
• Comment--verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.
• Explanation--brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
• General Bibliography--occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliography contains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Editorial Preface
Author’s Preface
Abbreviations
Commentary Bibliography
Introduction
I. Four Young Exiles Gain Insight and Prestige without Losing Holiness (1:1–21)
II. The God of the Heavens Reveals the King’s Dream to Daniel and the Empire’s Destiny to Nebuchadnezzar (2:1–49)
III. God Vindicates His Power When Three Judahites Choose Burning Rather Than Compromise (3:1–30)
IV. Nebuchadnezzar Testifies to Kingship and Sanity Threatened, Lost, and Restored (4:1–37 [3:31–4:34])
V. Belshazzar Fails to Learn from His Father’s Experience and Is Put Down (5:1–31 [5:1–6:1])
VI. God Vindicates His Power When Daniel Chooses the Lion Pit Rather Than Compromise (6:1–28 [2–29])
VII. God On High Reveals the World’s Destiny to Daniel (7:1–28)
VIII. Gabriel Explains Daniel’s Vision of the Breaking of the Greek Empire (8:1–27)
IX. Daniel Prays for the End of His People’s Desolation and His Prayer Is Heard (9:1–27)
X. A Celestial Figure Reveals to Daniel What Will Happen to His People at the End of the Era (10:1–12:13)
Conclusion
Scripture and Extrabiblical Index
Subject Index
Author Index