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This paper, in two parts, discusses the significant scholarship on apocalypses and apocalypticism in antiquity published since Mysteries and Revelations: Apocalyptic Studies since the Uppsala Conference (Collins and Charlesworth [eds.] 1991). Part 1 contains (1) the introduction, sections on studies that address issues of (2) taxonomy and definitions, and (3) function and settings, plus the first half of the section dealing with (4) origins and influences, specifically Ancient Near Eastern and classical. The bibliographies are part-specific, but their entries are integrated.

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With the sole exception of Adam, 1 the figure of Daniel the Prophet 2 has had more ancient and mediaeval apocryphal literature attributed to or associated with it than any other from the Hebrew Bible. Over fifty Jewish, Christian, and Islamic compositions are extant, each of which may be classified under one of only three types: 3 i) legenda, or 1 And perhaps Ezra and/or Moses, although there is no way to be certain until a full account of the corpus of the apocrypha pertaining to each figure is tallied. On the

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