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17 Herodotus, Histories 1.108.
18 Ibid., 7.19.

19 Cf. Porteous, Daniel, 101–2; Leupold, Daniel, 180; and Montgomery, Daniel, 228–30.

20 Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, M. G. Easton, trans. (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955), 150.

21 Montgomery, Daniel, 231–32.

22 Leon Wood, A Commentary on Daniel (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1973), 110; Joyce C.
Baldwin, Daniel, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity,
1978), 112.

23 Keil, Daniel, 154.

24 For further discussion of this, see Leupold, Daniel, 194–96.

25 Keil mentions the statements of Berosus in Josephi Ant. x. 11, 1, and con. Ap. I. 19, and of
Abydenus in Eusebii praepar. evang. ix. 41, and Chron. I. 59; also the delineation of these
buildings in Duncker’s Gesch. des Alterth. i. 854 ff. (Keil, Daniel, 159). See also the excellent
description by Charles Boutflower, In and Around the Book of Daniel (Grand Rapids: Zondervan,

1963), 66–67.
26 Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts, 307.

27 Montgomery, Daniel, 243–44.

28 Leupold, Daniel, 201.

29 Frank M. Cross, The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Biblical Studies (Garden City, NY:
Doubleday, 1958), 123–24; cf. Millar Burrows, More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York:
Viking, 1958), 400, and David N. Freedman, “The Prayer of Nabonidus,” Bulletin of the
American Schools of Oriental Research 145 (February 1957), 31–32. For a conservative

evaluation, see R. K. Harrison, Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
1969), 1117–21.
30 For a more detailed discussion see Baldwin, Daniel, 116–18.

31 Young, Daniel, 113.