Book of Daniel

Topoi of revealed secrets occur in over twenty-five ANE sources, ranging from Sumer, Babylon, and Persia in the east to Egypt and Greece in the west. In the following subsection is three positive-revelation sources possibly holding a parent-child relationship with Second Temple writings. The second subsection contains two for negative revelation. The three most likely sources for parent-child relationships are (1) the Ascent of Enmeduranki, (2) the Assyrian version of the Epic of Gilgamesh, and…

The 2,000 Stripling Warriors were the children of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s. The people of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s wanted to help the Nephites defend against the Lamanites, but they had all promised God that they would never lift a weapon to kill a person again. The Nephites did not want them to break their promise to God so they told them to not come into battle with them. The youth of the Anti-Nephi-Lehi’s never made that promise to God so they prepared for war and chose their leader Helaman to lead…

Reading Daniel: Negotiating the Classic Issues of the Book After reading the Reading Daniel: Negotiating the Classic Issues of the Book by Kathy Lopez, this leave me think that there was and still is much concern with the content of the book of Daniel and how it was written and why there were two types of dialect used. While the stories that are found in the book of Daniel are interesting they leave scholar perplexed as well as Susan Lopez. Although she has given a great analogy of how the book…

The book of Daniel is found between the major and minor prophets. Daniel was written during the sixth century BC/E (ETOT pg. 428). This book is also only one of two books in the Old Testament partially written in Aramaic. The book begins with the basic tension of the first half of the book. David and his friends are very wise and capable. They are recruited to serve in the royal palace of Babylon, however, they are pressured into giving up their Jewish identity. They would have and to violate…

Introduction In 605 B.C during Jehoiakim’s reign, the Babylonian’s king Nebuchadnezzar took Daniel and his friends as captives when he besieged Jerusalem. Daniel was taken captive because he fit in the standards, which the king was searching for: young men, good-looking and smart. During the time of captivity, Daniel, the author of the book of the Bible with the same name , writes about the dreams, visions and situations he passed in the course of the captivity. Indeed Daniel’s actions…

Through an investigation of the hermeneutical and archeological evidence available, Yamauchi argues that there is little reason to doubt that Daniel should be attributed to the sixth century B.C. Archaeological Background The main idea of this article is to reason that the available archaeological evidence testifies to a sixth century dating of the book of Daniel. First, Yamauchi explores the considerations given to Nebuchadnezzar. Here, the author brings into question the idea of the…

Daniel’s 70 weeks lay out God’s plan for the nation, Israel (see Daniel 9:24-27). According to most scholars within both the Dispensational and Covenantal camps, the Messiah (Jesus) is cut off (crucified) after the 7 and 62 (7+62=69) weeks. These are weeks of years, not days. Dispensationalists teach a parenthesis (2000-year gap) between the 69th and 70th week, which becomes the church age of grace, essentially starting from Christ’s resurrection and extending all the way until the rapture of…

evangelicals in the crowd. The insincerity was dripping from every pore of this man’s body language. Of course, the main writer of “The Art of the Deal”, Brian Schwartz, said that if he were to write the book all over again, he’d title it, “The Sociopath”. What? You thought Trump wrote the book? I would never “personally” say Trump didn’t write it but I hear some are sayin’… (Trump tactic in play). Verse 26 has the Antichrist “coming to his end” as the kingdom is handed over to the saints for an…

Daniel utilizes a new introductory formula in this verse to focus the attention of the reader to the climax of the visions of the beasts. From this group of ten horns, comes up “another horn, a little one” which displaced three other horns. This little horn had “eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.” Nothing specifically is said about the nature of what is being said, however, within the Bible’s wisdom literature, through the eyes or speech of a person, their…

mysteriously smiles, or even a peaceful wooden footbridge in the awake of a magnificent water lily pond. Every artist tells a story through their masterpiece but in order to do so, the artist must be motivated and inspired to create. In the book, Drive, Daniel H. Pink investigates what motivates an individual and how it affects human society. As a result, Pink, as well as others, can come to a consensus that often times, people create something for either the psychological or personal pleasure…