

It introduces to the reader the Hebrew heroes of the book, Daniel and his three fellow-captives, Ananias, Misael, and Azarias, and records the manner in which these noble youths obtained a high rank in Nabuchodonosor‘s service, although they had refused to be defiled by eating of the royal food.
#WHO IS MICHAEL IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL SERIES#
The opening chapter of the first series may be considered as a preface to the whole work. i-vi), and the second, a series of visions which are described in the first person (chaps. The first includes a series of narratives which are told in the third person (chaps. PROTO-CANONICAL PORTIONS.-(I) Contents.-The Book of Daniel, as it now stands in the ordinary Hebrew Bibles, is generally divided into two main parts.

As in the Vulgate nearly all the deutero-canonical portions of that prophetical writing form a kind of appendix to its proto-canonical contents in the Hebrew text, the present article will deal first with the Book of Daniel as it is found in the Hebrew Bible, and next, with its deutero-canonical portions. In the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and many other ancient and modern translations of Holy Writ, it comprises both its proto- and its deutero-canonical parts, which two sets of parts have an equal right to be considered as inspired, and to be included in a treatment of the Book of Daniel.

Daniel, Book of.-In the Hebrew Bible, and in most recent Protestant versions, the Book of Daniel is limited to its proto-canonical portions.
