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The textual witnesses to the Book of Daniel are complex. They present a challenge to any scholar wishing to investigate the production and transmission of the book in the ancient world. The difficulties with the text are not limited to the twelve-chapter masoretic tradition but extend also to the so-called additions to Daniel. These not only appear in divergent locations within different editions and manuscripts but also appear in different forms. In this study, I argue that at least some of the differences between the Old Greek of Bel and the Serpent and the Theodotion edition of the story should be attributed to a pronounced interest on the part of Theodotion to link its version of the story to Daniel 6, the other story of Daniel in the lions' den. To prove this point I examine the introductory verses, the use of divine names, and the description of the lions' den. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the Temple Scroll in the context of hellenistic and graeco-roman scholarly texts. Topics include the special relationship it displays with the legal/instructional material contained in the writings such as the Pentateuch, specifically Exodus 34 through Deuteronomy in the Masoretic tradition, and one of the commonly noted features of the Temple Scroll is that it tends to collocate laws from disparate parts of the Pentateuch.