The Antichrist Legend
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From The Antichrist Legend: A Chapter in Christian and Jewish Folklore (1895), by Wilhelm Bousset (pages 71-72):
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From The Antichrist Legend: A Chapter in Christian and Jewish Folklore (1895), by Wilhelm Bousset (pages 71-72):
On the title of the Apocalypse of Daniel it is further to be noted that Lightfoot (quoted by Zahn, 120) draws attention to a miscellaneous codex of the twelfth century in Wright's Catalogue of Syriac MSS., I. 19, which, after the deuterocanonical additions to Daniel, contains a fragment "from the Little Daniel on our Lord (?) and the End of the World." Here we may perhaps conjecture that we have a part of the Apocalypse, which again lies at the base of the rediscovered source. Zahn is further of opinion that, in accordance with a notice of Ebed Jesu (Assemani, Bibl. Orient., III. 15), Hippolytus had already commented on this apocryphal book of the Little Daniel. Professor Bonwetsch who was consulted by me on the subject, is inclined to see in the notice of "the Little [Young] Daniel and Susanna" only one and the same work―that is, the apocryphal history of Susanna and Daniel of the Old Testament. I should greatly desire to have this matter cleared up, for it would be very important to find that Hippolytus had already known and commented upon an Apocalypse of Daniel. What has been said higher up regarding Hippolytus is no longer an impossibility. The relations of the Greek Apocalypse of Daniel to the pseudo=-Methodius, and especially to the interpolated passage on the siege of Constantinople, has already been discussed (p. 51). Here may further be mentioned the interesting title of a treatise occurring in Fabricius: "The Last Vision of the Great Prophet Daniel," etc.
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