When you open a book, who reads the Preface? Who feels that the Preface is just anunnecessary introduction to a book that is already 200-300 pages long that the author includedfor their own ego? Who feels like if they are going to go to all the effort to read a 300 page book

- they might as well read it from stem to stern?

Chapter 4 of Daniel opens with the preface of an edict from Nebuchadnezzar, that bookendswith chapter 4’s postscript. Some have argued that Daniel 4:1-3 actually belongs as thepostscript of chapter 3, but as constructed here most scholars argue that this construction is theintended, proper reading.