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1969], 316).
14 Ibid., 315.
15 Ibid., 316.
16 James A. Montgomery, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, The
International Critical Commentary (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1927), 269.
17 Ibid.
18 See also the explanation by Leon Wood, A Commentary on Daniel (Grand Rapids: Zondervan,
1973), 155–56.
19 John Goldingay, Daniel, Word Biblical Commentary, David A. Hubbard and Glenn W. Barker,
eds. (Dallas: Word, 1989), 125.
20 Wood notes the word used in verses 6 and 11 has the idea of coming “‘in concert’ with the
possible thought of implied conspiracy” (Wood, Daniel, 159).
21 Montgomery, Daniel, 269–70.
22 Ibid., 270.
23 Diodorus Siculus recounted an incident in which a Persian king condemned a man to death
for his rude speech. The king “promptly regretted his act and reproached himself for having
made a serious mistake, but all his royal power was not able to undo what was done”
(Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 17.30.6).
24 Franz Rosenthal, A Grammar of Biblical Aramaic (Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1961), 96.
25 Edward J. Young, The Prophecy of Daniel (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949), 134.
26 Moses Stuart, A Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1850), 171.
27 Joyce C. Baldwin, Daniel, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL:
InterVarsity, 1978), 129.
28 Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Daniel, M. G. Easton, trans. (Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955), 216.
29 Goldingay, Daniel, 132.
30 Archer, “Daniel,” 81.
31 Keil, Daniel, 216.
32 Wood, Daniel, 171.
33 Montgomery, Daniel, 278.
