The earliest copy of the book of Daniel isĭated around 125-100 and its first indisputable (or/and stories about him) was known before Literature to indicate an extraordinary prophetĪnd high ranking official named Daniel/Belteshazzar
There is no mention in the Jewish (or others) That makes the prophecies of the book veryĪccurate (up to 168-164 that is!). Have been written as a whole around 537-530. Tradition calls for the book of Daniel to "The Book of Daniel was written during the persecutions of Israel by the Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes." The book, however, was written in a later time of national crisis, when the Jews were suffering severe persecution under Antiochus IV Epiphanes (reigned 175 to 164/163 BCE). "The Book of Daniel presents a collection of popular stories about Daniel, a loyal Jew, and the record of visions granted to him, with the Babylonian Exile of the 6th century BCE as their background. (The New Jerusalem Bible, Introduction to "The book must therefore have been written during the persecution under AntiochusĮpiphanes and before his death, even before the success of the Maccabaean revolt that is to say between 167 and 164." Genuine history, whereas anything he may have conjectured beyond that point was false inasmuch as he would have not foreknown the future." Its title, but rather by some person living in Judea at the time ofĪntiochus Epiphanes he further alleged that Daniel did not prophesy the future so muchĪs he related the past, and lastly whatever he spoke of up until the time of Antiochus contained Of Daniel, denying that it was written by "Porphyry wrote his 20th book against the prophecy You may email the author, and learn more about him here Note: all dates, if not specified, are B.C.E.įront page: Daniel and Revelation (with website search function) The seventy sevens or weeks, the four kingdoms and kings, etc Mysteries explained and dating demonstrated