The chief Rabbinic Commentaries were those of Rashi († 1105); Abn Ezra († 1167); Kimchi († 1240); Abrabanel († 1507).[1]
The chief Patristic Commentary is that by St. Jerome. Fragments are preserved of other Commentaries by Origen, Hippolytus, Ephræm Syrus, Julius Africanus, Theodoret, Athanasius, Basil, Eusebius, Polychronius, etc. (Mai, _Script. Vet. Nov. Coll._, i.).
The Scholastic Commentary attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas is spurious.
The chief Commentaries of the Reformation period are those by:--
Luther, _Auslegung d. Proph. Dan._, 1530-46 (_Opp. Germ._, vi., ed. Walch.)
Œcolampadius, _In Dan. libri duo_. Basle, 1530.
Melancthon, _Comm. in Dan._ Wittenburg, 1543.
Calvin, _Prælect. in Dan._ Geneva, 1563.
Modern Commentaries are numerous; among them we may mention those by:--
Newton, _Observations upon the Prophecies_. London, 1733.
Bertholdt, _Daniel_. Erlangen, 1806-8.
Rosenmüller, _Scholia_. 1832.
Hävernick. 1832 and 1838.
Hengstenberg. 1831.
There are Commentaries by Von Lengerke, 1835; Maurer, 1838; Hitzig, 1850; Ewald, 1867; Kliefoth, 1868; Keil, 1869; Kranichfeld, 1868; Kamphausen, 1868; Meinhold (_Kurzgefasster Kommentar_), 1889; Auberlen, 1857; Archdeacon Rose and Prof. J. M. Fuller (_Speaker's Commentary_), 1876; Rev. H. J. Deane (Bishop Ellicott's _Commentary_), 1884; Zöckler (Lange's _Bibelwerk_), 1889; A. A. Bevan (_Cambridge_), 1893; Meinhold, _Beiträge_, 1888.
The latest Commentary which has appeared is that by Hauptpastor Behrmann, in the _Handkommentar z. Alten Testament._ Göttingen, 1894.
Discussions in the various Introductions (_Einleitungen_, etc.) by Bleek, De Wette, Keil, Stähelin, Reuss, Cornely, Dr. S. Davidson, Kleinert, Cornill, König, etc.
Pseudo-Epiphanius, _Opera_, ii. 243.
H. J. Deane, _Daniel_ (Men of the Bible). 1892.
Winer's _Realwörterbuch_, Second Edition.
Delitzsch, in Herzog's _Real-Encyclopädie_.
Graf, in Schenkel's _Bibel-Lexicon_, i. 564.
Bishop Westcott, in Dr. W. Smith's _Bible Dictionary_, New Edition. 1893.
Hamburger, _Real-Encyclopädie_, ii., _s.v._ "Geheimlehre," p. 265; _s.vv._ "Daniel," pp. 223-225; and _Heiliges Schriftthum_.