The visions in the latter half of Daniel are theorized to be written by an anonymous author in the Maccabean era, who assembled the legends with the visions as one book, in the 2nd century BCE.

Seven of the eight scrolls originally contained the entire book of Daniel in the short form as it is in the Masoretic Text, however none have the long form as preserved in the Septuagint.

The four scrolls that preserve the relevant sections ( 1QDan < sup > a </ sup >, 4QDan < sup > a </ sup >, 4QDan < sup > b </ sup >, and 4QDan < sup > d </ sup >) all follow the same bilingual nature of Daniel where the book opens in Hebrew, switches to Aramaic at 2: 4b, then reverts back to Hebrew at 8: 1.

According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.

The book of Daniel uses the term " Chaldean " to refer both to an ethnic group, and to astrologers in general.

Attempts have been made to organize the entire book of Daniel with a chiastic structure despite the major break between Daniel 6 and 7, even though there are parallel themes across that break.

Then in 1986, William H. Shea, Ph. D. in Archeology, expanded on Lenglet's foundation to include the entire book of Daniel.

While others feel that the Prayer of Nabonidus shows signs of dependence on the book of Daniel.

Similar to the traditional view in Judaism, conservative Christians view the Book of Daniel as written by the prophet Daniel, who they claim wrote the book around 536 BC after having been in captivity for about 70 years.

The prophet Habakkuk is also mentioned in the tale of Bel and the Dragon, part of the deuterocanonical additions to Daniel in a late section of that book.

In this book Habakkuk is lifted by an angel to Babylon to provide Daniel with some food while he is in the lion's den.

The abomination of desolation ( or desolating sacrilege ) is a term found in the Hebrew Bible, in the book of Daniel.

The key to this understanding is the " seventy weeks prophecy ” in the book of Daniel.

Photius, writing in the 9th century, found various text appended to manuscripts of the seven canonical books, which lead Daniel Heinsius to suggest that the original eighth book is lost, and he identified the text purported to be from the eighth book as fragments of the Hypopotoses.

* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

In the book Daniel X: Watch the Skies, the main character, Daniel, uses the term several times over the course of the book.

Finkelstein has published heavy criticisms of several books in his career, as he did to Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Johnah Goldhagen, which he calls " replete with gross misinterpretations of source material and internal contradictions ", and says " the book is devoid of scholarly value ".

" Music Hound, The Essential Album Guide ," a book published in 1999 and edited by Gary Graff and Daniel Durchholz, gave " Forever Changes " a 4. 5 ( out of 5 ) rating.

The earliest hymn book published was the " Sacred Melodist " which was published by Benjamin Wilson in Geneva, Illinois in 1860.

Within a year of completing Adam Bede, she finished The Mill on the Floss, inscribing the manuscript: " To my beloved husband, George Henry Lewes, I give this MS. of my third book, written in the sixth year of our life together, at Holly Lodge, South Field, Wandsworth, and finished 21 March 1860.

Sherman initially denied that he had endorsed the book, and had instead only signed a circular recommending that the book be used as a Republican campaign tool for the 1860 race.

He also regularly cites St. Paul in Britain, an 1860 book by R. W. Morgan, and advocates other tenets of British Israelism, in particular that the British are descended from the lost tribes of Israel.

It is generally agreed that the term originated with the first book in Beadle & Adam's Beadle ’ s Dime Novel series, Maleaska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter, by Ann S. Stephens, dated June 9, 1860.

* Grancer Harrison ( 1789 – 1860 ), who is featured in the book 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey ;

In 1860, Owen's book, Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World, aroused something of a literary sensation.

It was first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860, then in book form in 1861.

Spencer's reputation as a Social Darwinist can be largely traced to Richard Hofstadter's book Social Darwinism in American Thought 1860 – 1915, " a hostile critique of Spencer's work, published in 1944, sold in large numbers and was very influential, especially in academic circles.

L ' Amour was followed by La Femme ( 1860 ), a book on which a whole critique of French literature and French character might be founded.

In 1860 he published anonymously a small book entitled The Religious Tendencies of the Age, but on leaving college he abandoned his original intention and turned to historiography.

The town's first official guide book was published in 1860 and the Queen's Hotel opened on the seafront the following year.

Rather than being of ancient origin as usually assumed, the specific expression, and its even more distinctive associated Latin phrase, has been traced back to an attribution to Thomas Sydenham ( 1624 – 1689 ) in a book by Thomas Inman ( 1860 ).

The widespread coverage of the original debates and the subsequent popularity of the book led eventually to Lincoln's nomination for President of the United States by the 1860 Republican National Convention in Chicago.

He served as translator as well in two subsequent British actions against the Chinese in North China in 1858 and 1860, the latter resulting in his book, The North China Campaign of 1860 ( London, 1861 ), his personal account of the Second Opium War.

His first book and that by which he is best known was his Outlines of Theology ( New York, 1860 ; enlarged ed., 1878 ; reprinted 1996, ISBN 0-85151-160-0 ), which was translated into Welsh, modern Greek, and Hindustani.

In 1860, he published a small book, which, although a commercial failure, increased his fame.

His first book, originally published in 1860, reappeared in 1864 under the title of Un Cheval de Phidias: it is a romantic study of art in the golden age of Athens.

Les paradis artificiels ( Artificial Paradises ) is a book by French poet Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1860, about the state of being under the influence of opium and hashish.

In 1860 he published a book entitled The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales.

The book was published simultaneously in America and England in 1860 ; the title for the British edition was Transformation: Or the Romance of Monte Beni.

Karl Marx scathingly replied to slanderous attacks by Karl Vogt in his book Herr Vogt ( 1860 ).

Walter SickertWalter Richard Sickert ( 31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942 ) was a German-born artist of British and Danish ancestry, who was first mentioned as a possible Ripper suspect in Donald McCormick's 1959 book The Identity of Jack the Ripper.