Highly regarded Old Testament scholar Stephen Cook offers a substantive and useful commentary on the book of Daniel and explores the contemporary significance of this prophetic book.
This groundbreaking commentary departs from common rationalist approaches in order to engage Daniel's visionary content on its own terms, introducing innovative interpretive frameworks that emphasize the cosmic scope of this biblical book and its revelations of heavenly reality. Integrating insights from fields such as analytical psychology, comparative literature, and cosmology, Cook's approach allows the disorienting imagery of Daniel to resonate fully, offering readers fresh insights into its apocalyptic dreams and transcendent symbolism. Cook also addresses the political and theological implications of apocalyptic literature in modern spiritual and geopolitical contexts.
In addition to paragraph-level commentary, all volumes of the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament series feature:
A fresh translation of the Hebrew text Incisive comments based on the author's translation Linguistic, historical, and canonical insights Concluding reflections Footnotes addressing technical matters
Pastors, teachers, and all serious students of the Bible will find here an accessible commentary that will serve as an excellent resource for their study.
This volume, like each in the Baker Commentary on the Old Testament series, is grounded in rigorous scholarship but is useful for those who preach and teach. Daniel is the third volume on the prophetic books, following Hosea-Micah by John Goldingay and Isaiah by J. Gordon McConville. Series editors are Mark J. Boda, McMaster Divinity College, and J. Gordon McConville, University of Gloucestershire.
Series Preface
Author's Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Introduction to Daniel's First Half: Tales of the Foreign Court
(1:1-6:28)
1. Daniel and Three Companions Forced to Migrate (1:1-7)
2. Nonviolent Resistance in a Foreign Court (1:8-21)
3. Nebuchadnezzar's Dream of a Great Statue (2:1-49)
4. Nebuchadnezzar's Gold Statue and the Furnace of Fire (3:1-30)
5. Nebuchadnezzar's Vision of a Toppled Tree and His Madness (4:1-37)
6. King Belshazzar's Feast (5:1-31)
7. Daniel in the Lions' Pit (6:1-28)
Excursus 1: Lion Symbolism, David's Line, and Messianism in Daniel
Part 2: Introduction to Daniel's Second Half: Apocalyptic Visions
(7:1-12:13)
8. A Vision of Four Beasts and God's Judgment (7:1-28)
Excursus 2: The Son of Man, Qumran, and the Historical Jesus
9. A Vision of a Ram, a Goat, and a Little Horn (8:1-27)
Excursus 3: The Repeating Materialization of the Horn Archetype
10. Daniel's Prayer and the Mystery of the Seventy Weeks (9:1-27)
Excursus 4: The Dying Anointed One in Zechariah and at Qumran
Vision of Final Conflict in Heaven and on Earth (10:1-12:4)
11. The Cloud Rider Returns as Angels Fight One Another (10:1-11:1)
12. The Kings of the South and the North, Part 1 (11:2-35)
13. The Kings of the South and the North, Part 2 (11:36-12:4)
Excursus 5: The Meaning and Background of Resurrection in Daniel
14. Waiting for the End Time (12:5-13)
Indexes
Stephen L. Cook (PhD, Yale University) is the Catherine N. McBurney Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. His areas of expertise include biblical hermeneutics and theology, Hebrew exegesis, the prophecies of Daniel and Ezekiel, the book of Deuteronomy, prophetic and apocalyptic literature, the social settings of Scripture, and educational technology. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including an Anchor Yale Bible Commentary on Ezekiel 38-48.
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