The Text of Daniel in the Qumran Scrolls

Abstract

The Book of Daniel exercised greater influence in the late second temple period than would be expected of one of the smaller books of the Bible, just as it continues to do today. Various groups within Judaism appear to have found the person of Daniel, the multiple traditions that centered around him over the course of centuries, and the book that collected a selection of stories about him important for their developing religious reflections. While this is true for broader Judaism in general, it is likewise true for the covenanters at Qumran. Of the biblical book, a total of eight manuscripts have been identified at Qumran, deriving from three separate caves. This chapter focuses on individual textual variants, and the most striking observation is how little variation there is, virtually nothing of significance. Keywords: Book of Daniel; Judaism; Qumran; religious reflections; textual variants

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