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Clarendon, 1929), 57–59; cf. Keil, Daniel, 184–85.
17 John Goldingay, Daniel, Word Biblical Commentary, David A. Hubbard and Glenn W. Barker,
eds. (Dallas: Word, 1989), 148.
18 Geoffrey R. King, Daniel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1966), 148.
19 Edward J. Young, The Prophecy of Daniel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949), 124.
20 There is a remarkably close parallel to the language of 5:23 in the Prayer of Nabonidus found
in Qumran Cave 4: See J. T. Milik, “‘Priere de Nabonide’ et autres ecrits d’un cycle de Daniel,”
Revue Biblique 63 (July 1956), 407–15.
21 In the end, even the critics accept either the interpretation of Daniel (mene, “numbered”;
tekel, “weighed”; peres, “divided”), or the reading, “a maneh, a maneh, a shekel, and a half-
maneh.” Cf. Montgomery, Daniel, 262–64.
22 Charles, Daniel, 57–59; Keil, Daniel, 126.
23 Young, Daniel, 125–26.
24 Herodotus, Histories 1:190–91.
25 Keil, Daniel, 171–72.
26 Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts, 315–16.
27 John C. Whitcomb, Jr., Darius the Mede (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1959), 73.
