An unnamed individual falls before a throne. The individual then goes on to address the king directly and to calm him down, because the king is troubled by a vision he has had. This sort of scene is well known from the book of Daniel, where it is Daniel who appears before the throne of King Nebuchadnezzar to interpret the king’s dreams for him (Daniel 2 and 4); hence, the title for this text from Qumran, the Apocryphon (or “hidden,” in the sense of “lesser known text”) of Daniel. The seer offers an interpretation that involves “oppression” and “great slaughter in the provinces,” and it also
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