1 - 6) and apocalyptic ("revelatory") material (found mainly in chs. ![]() The book is made up primarily of historical narrative (found mainly in chs. The climax of his sovereign rule is described in Revelation: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will High (God) is sovereign over the kingdoms of men." Daniel's visions always The theological theme of the book is summarized in 4:17 5:21: "The Most Objective evidence, therefore, appears to exclude the late-date hypothesisĪnd indicates that there is insufficient reason to deny Daniel's authorship. ( 9:25 9:25-27), works out to the time of Jesus' ministry. Prophecy concerning the coming of "the Anointed One, the ruler," approximatelyĤ83 years after "the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem" Predictive of the Roman empire ( 2:33 7:7,19), which did not take control The symbolism connected with the fourth kingdom makes it unmistakably Place by the second century anyway, so the prophetic element cannot beĭismissed. Several of the fulfillments of prophecies in Daniel could not have taken.Greek translation of the OT) translated them incorrectly. that translators of the Septuagint (the pre-Christian The Persian and Greek words in Daniel do not require a late date. Must have been composed centuries earlier. 1939) demonstrates that the Hebrew and Aramaic chapters of Daniel Hebrew and Aramaic writing from the third and second centuries b.c. LinguisticĮvidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls (which furnish authentic samples of Language itself argues for a date earlier than the second century. Thus it becomes clear that the four empires are the Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Greek and Roman. But in the mind of the author, "the Medes and Persians" ( 5:28 ) togetherĬonstituted the second in the series of four kingdoms ( 2:32-43 see note ![]() 2 and 7 are Babylon, Media, Persia and Greece.
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