Florin G Laiu, The Hebrew and the Aramaic of Daniel

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Florin G Laiu

 

https://www.academia.edu/8671131/The_HEBREW_and_the_ARAMAIC_of_DANIEL.

This is freely downloadable. You could probably negotiate a very reasonable price.

 

I suggest this as an excellent & technical commentary on Daniel. Much of this work is laid out as a chapter & verse commentary on Daniel. For some reason the Hebrew looks garbled below from my copy & paste.

 

Now this is my kind of commentary:

Daniel 12:7

~r,Y"w:

.....

 

[m;v.a,w"

 

Daniel shows first his interest in the divine answer, and creates a sen-tence that is impossible in English and perhaps in most languages:

 I heard that Man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, and He raised His right hand...

 This should  be understood as the following:

 I heard the Man ....., how, after raising His right hand......He  sweared...

 

~yIm;V'h;-la,

...

 ~r,Y"w

 Gn 14:22, Ex 6:8, Dt 32:40, Ne 9:15 (Comp. Rev 10:5-6. The Angel is seen there raising His right hand only).

~l'A[h' yxe 

This expression is used in Daniel only, see Aram. Dan 4:31, 6:27, and it may be derived from the royal greeting mentioned in  Ne 2:3, Dan 2:4, 3:9, 5:10, 6:7.22

 – 

 implying the name of God as Heavenly King

 – 

 , and from the Hebrew oath formula,

 hwhy yx; 

(Jg 8:19, 1S 14:39, Ho 4:15).

 ycixew" ~ydI[]Am d[eAml. 

=

!D'[i gl;p.W !ynID'[iw> !D'[i-d[; 

(Aram. Dan 7:25). In both places we should read as dual the noun

~yId:[]Am

/

!ynED'[i

.

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 This is obviously an encrypted formula. The speaker just sends us to the Aramaic vision of chap. 7, which has many encoded figures. His reference is a strong suggestion that helps us identify the last tyrant of chap. 7 with the last one of chap. 11. It follows that the vision in chap. 8 is another perspective on the same events foreseen in chap. 7 and quite minutely described in chap. 11-12.