Book Of Daniel And The Apocryphal Daniel Literature.BS1700 2005-042079 90-04-14412-9 The book of Daniel Noun 1. Book of Daniel - an Old Testament book that tells of the apocalyptic visions and the experiences of Daniel in the court of Nebuchadnezzar Book of the Prophet Daniel, Daniel and the apocryphal a·poc·ry·phal adj. 1. Of questionable authorship or authenticity. 2. Erroneous; fictitious: "Wildly apocryphal rumors about starvation in Petrograd . . . Daniel literature. DiTommaso, Lorenzo. (Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha Pseudepigrapha (s  'dĭpĭ`grəfə) [Gr.,=things falsely ascribed], a collection of early Jewish and some Jewish-Christian writings composed between c.200 B.C. and c.A.D. ;
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Brill Academic Publishers, [c]2005 547 p. $169.00 In the first comprehensive survey since 1858, DiTommaso (theology, Concordia U., Montreal) aspires to illuminate the full extent of the ancient and medieval apocryphal Daniel literature, including the manuscript evidence, and to bring into focus certain issues fundamental to its three major types. He examines the Daniel legenda, the apocryphal apocalypses, and the prognostica as discrete categories of texts; and evaluates their generic relation to the biblical Book of Daniel. The study is intended to contribute to the current spate of investigations into the origins, purposes, and place of biblical apocrypha The biblical apocrypha includes texts written in the Jewish and Christian religious traditions that either:
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