Daniel

According to the Book of Daniel, yes, there can. This remarkable piece of Scripture has encouraged the faithful for centuries, giving us a glimpse to future events that already came to pass and and are yet to come. Christians and Jews alike will appreciate the timely events that Daniel sees in his visions, while giving us hope to look forward to where evil hearts and rulers will one day finally come to an end. We also have a chance to get to know Daniel, Shadrach, Meeshach, and Abendego and see them as the model example for believers living in the midst of a dark world, which applies both to Daniel's day and to ours in the end times.

Keep an eye out for key manifestations of Jesus Christ as well, as He is often referred to descriptions of being like a "Son of Man. A group of biblical books that have a similar literary genre or main themes and have been placed together as a major section of the Bible. A unique style of writing that follows recognized literary conventions and language patterns. A story sequence in which characters are placed in a setting and involved in a developing plotline.

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The story of Daniel motivates faithfulness despite exile in Babylon. In the first year of Darius the Mede, Daniel meditates on the word of Jeremiah that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years; he confesses the sin of Israel and pleads for God to restore Israel and the "desolated sanctuary" of the Temple. The angel Gabriel explains that the seventy years stand for seventy "weeks" of years years , during which the Temple will first be restored, then later defiled by a "prince who is to come," "until the decreed end is poured out.

In the third year of Cyrus [Notes 5] Daniel sees in his vision an angel called "a man", but clearly a supernatural being who explains that he is in the midst of a war with the "prince of Persia", assisted only by Michael , "your prince. A future king of Persia will make war on the king of Greece , a "mighty king" will arise and wield power until his empire is broken up and given to others, and finally the king of the south identified in verse 8 as Egypt will go to war with the "king of the north. He will defeat and subjugate Libya and Egypt, but "reports from the east and north will alarm him," and he will meet his end "between the sea and the holy mountain.

At this time Michael will come. It will be a time of great distress, but all those whose names are written will be delivered. Daniel fails to understand and asks again what will happen, and is told: Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1, days. The Greek text of Daniel is considerably longer than the Hebrew, due to three additional stories: The visions of chapters 7—12 reflect the crisis which took place in Judea in — BC when Antiochus IV Epiphanes , the Greek king of the Seleucid Empire , threatened to destroy traditional Jewish worship in Jerusalem.

The High Priestly family was split by rivalry, and one member, Jason, offered the king a large sum to be made High Priest. Jason also asked—or more accurately, paid—to be allowed to make Jerusalem a polis , or Greek city. This meant, among other things, that city government would be in the hands of the citizens, which meant in turn that citizenship would be a valuable commodity, to be purchased from Jason. None of this threatened the Jewish religion, and the reforms were widely welcomed, especially among the Jerusalem aristocracy and the leading priests.

Three years later Jason was deposed when another priest, Menelaus, offered Antiochus an even larger sum for the post of High Priest. Antiochus invaded Egypt twice, in BC with success, but on the second incursion, in late BC, he was forced to withdraw by the Romans. The crisis which the author of Daniel addresses is the defilement of the altar in Jerusalem in BC first introduced in chapter 8: It is generally accepted that Daniel originated as a collection of Aramaic court tales later expanded by the Hebrew revelations.

Daniel is one of a large number of Jewish apocalypses, all of them pseudonymous. Although the entire book is traditionally ascribed to Daniel the seer, chapters 1—6 are in the voice of an anonymous narrator, except for chapter 4 which is in the form of a letter from king Nebuchadnezzar; only the second half chapters 7—12 is presented by Daniel himself, introduced by the anonymous narrator in chapters 7 and The book is a product of "Wisdom" circles, but the type of wisdom is mantic the discovery of heavenly secrets from earthly signs rather than the wisdom of learning—the main source of wisdom in Daniel is God's revelation.

It is possible that the name of Daniel was chosen for the hero of the book because of his reputation as a wise seer in Hebrew tradition. The prophecies of Daniel are accurate down to the career of Antiochus IV Epiphanes , king of Syria and oppressor of the Jews, but not in its prediction of his death: Chapters 10—12 must therefore have been written between and BC.

There is no evidence of a significant time lapse between those chapters and chapters 8 and 9, and chapter 7 may have been written just a few months earlier again. Further evidence of the book's date is in the fact that Daniel is excluded from the Hebrew Bible's canon of the prophets , which was closed around BC, and the Wisdom of Sirach , a work dating from around BC, draws on almost every book of the Old Testament except Daniel, leading scholars to suppose that its author was unaware of it.

Daniel is, however, quoted in a section of the Sibylline Oracles commonly dated to the middle of the 2nd century BC, and was popular at Qumran at much the same time, suggesting that it was known from the middle of that century. The Book of Daniel is preserved in the chapter Masoretic Text and in two longer Greek versions, the original Septuagint version, c.

Both Greek texts contain three additions to Daniel: Theodotion is much closer to the Masoretic Text and became so popular that it replaced the original Septuagint version in all but two manuscripts of the Septuagint itself. Eight copies of the Book of Daniel, all incomplete, have been found at Qumran , two in Cave 1 , five in Cave 4, and one in Cave 6. Between them, they preserve text from eleven of Daniel's twelve chapters, and the twelfth is quoted in the Florilegium a compilation scroll 4Q, showing that the book at Qumran did not lack this conclusion.

All appear to preserve the chapter Masoretic version rather than the longer Greek text.

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None reveal any major disagreements against the Masoretic, and the four scrolls that preserve the relevant sections 1QDan a , 4QDan a , 4QDan b , and 4QDan d all follow the bilingual nature of Daniel where the book opens in Hebrew , switches to Aramaic at 2: This section deals with modern scholarly reconstructions of the meaning of Daniel to its original authors and audience.

The Book of Daniel is an apocalypse , a literary genre in which a heavenly reality is revealed to a human recipient; such works are characterized by visions, symbolism, an other-worldly mediator, an emphasis on cosmic events, angels and demons, and pseudonymity false authorship. The message of the Book of Daniel is that, just as the God of Israel saved Daniel and his friends from their enemies, so he would save all Israel in their present oppression. The concepts of immortality and resurrection , with rewards for the righteous and punishment for the wicked, have roots much deeper than Daniel, but the first clear statement is found in the final chapter of that book: Daniel was quoted and referenced by both Jews and Christians in the 1st century AD as predicting the imminent end-time.

The influence of Daniel has not been confined to Judaism and Christianity: In the Middle Ages Muslims created horoscopes whose authority was attributed to Daniel. Daniel belongs not only to the religious tradition but also to the wider Western intellectual and artistic heritage. It was easily the most popular of the prophetic books for the Anglo-Saxons, who nevertheless treated it not as prophecy but as a historical book, "a repository of dramatic stories about confrontations between God and a series of emperor-figures who represent the highest reach of man".

Philosophers, such as Baruch Spinoza drew on it. In the 20th century its apocalyptic second half attracted the attention of Carl Jung. The book has also inspired musicians, from medieval liturgical drama to the 20th century compositions of Darius Milhaud. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Book of Daniel disambiguation. Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Daniel in the lions' den.

Four kingdoms of Daniel. Prophecy of Seventy Weeks. King of Judah — BC; his third year would be either or , depending how years are counted.

Persian conqueror of Babylon, BC. No such person is known to history see Levine, , p. The Persian army which captured Babylon was under the command of a certain Gobryas or Gubaru , on behalf of Cyrus, the Persian king. The author of Daniel may have introduced the reference to a Mede in order to fulfill Isaiah and Jeremiah, who prophesied that the Medes would overthrow Babylon, confusing the events of with those of BC, when Darius I captured Babylon after an uprising.

See Hammer, , pp. He was carried off to Babylon in B. In spite of the "captivity" of the Jews, Daniel enjoyed the highest offices of state at Babylon, but he was ever true to Jerusalem. His enemies under the Persian monarch got a penal law passed against any one who "asked a petition of any god or man for 30 days" except the Persian King. But Daniel continued true to Jerusalem. In Kitab al-Kafi , Imam Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin asserts that Allah revealed to Daniel that, "The most hated among my creatures are the ignorant ones who disrespect the scholars and do not follow them.

The Most beloved to Me in My servants are the pious ones who work hard to become entitled for greater rewards, who always stay close to the scholars, follow the fore-bearing people and accept the advice of people of wisdom. Daniel is considered a minor prophet in the teachings of the Baha'i Faith. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

It is not to be confused with Belshazzar. Judaism Christianity Islam Bahai Faith. Daniel in rabbinic literature. Islamic view of Daniel. Text, Translation and Commentary [28]. Sunday of the Holy Forefathers Translation: Text, Translation and Commentary , Note. The Islamic Seminary Inc. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. With an Introduction to Apocalyptic Literature.

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