This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...a genuine work of Daniel, they would have immediately inserted it with the other prophets, as belonging to them, if they regarded Daniel as a real prophet. But if Daniel was not regarded by the arrangers of the canon in the time of Nehemiah as a prophet in the sense in which they held the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel, they would, probably, have put it into the Hagiographa, though acknowledging the book to be genuine. But if Daniel had been vritten in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, it could not have been admitted into the Hagiographa, for that division was already closed. 2. ALLEGED GREEK WORDS IN DANIEL. In chap. iii, 5 ' occur the following names of musical instruments, which are alleged to be ofGreek origin: D1-TE, gay!/1ru: _, 'N Q, sablleka; t'jl: '=: t, pe.ra/1lcrz'1z; n"J'e'3'4D, szmzponeya/1. On the hypothesis of their Greek origin, the opponents of the genuineness of the book allege that at the time of the Babylonian captivity it is unlikely that musical instruments with Greek names were found in Babylon; and consequently that the bookanust be referred to a period subsequent to Alexander the Great, when Grecian learning was widely diflused in the East. _ The word o1'n'p is generally regarded as the Greek m'19a(ng' (or iut9a pa): 11/zara, or /tarp, which was in use at:1 very early period among the Greeks, and is found as the name of a musical instrument in Homer. It is very probably Greek, although Strabo represents some one as saying, "beating the A:: 'alz'cents-cf!/ram." ' N33? is supposed by some to be from the Greek dapfiemy, but with. outirieason. Filrst remarks that the word is " from the Aramzean, as a Syrian invented it" (Heb. Lex). Liddel