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Arguments for a late (2nd century BC) dating: Anti-Prophetic Argument One of the first people to dispute the traditional dating of Daniel was Porphyry, a pagan philosopher whose arguments have been preseved by Jerome. He argues that some of the prophecies in Daniel are so congruent to the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the book must have been written ...

The original word here is closest to yawan, aka Javan son of Japheth—who is credited in the Bible with being the start of the tree of descendants that populated the Greek region. So the translation isn't unreasonable, but it may be talking more about the people rather than a traditional "kingdom". For more information, see this page.

More on the linguistics for an early date. It is more proper to say that Hebrew had changed drastically by the 2nd century BC. Lingual shifts had happened but it was still a living language. The most obvious being the word order changed from verb-subject-object to subject-verb-object. It is called Mishnaic Hebrew and the rabbinic writings are full of it. ...

It is Gabriel. The answer is given a little earlier: Daniel 9:21: ...while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. It could not have been Michael, since the man in the vision refers to Michael in verses 13 and 21.

It's not implying that we'll become actual stars, but that we will become like stars. That "those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above". This brings to mind the radiance of God that we saw shining around Moses after he came down from Mount Sinai: Exodus 34:29 (NIV) When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of ...

A translation without bias? That isn't possible. Every person alive has presuppositions that they bring to the text. I know I do. Knowing and admitting that I have a bias actually helps me translating the Old Testament because I can then watch out for it when I am working through a text. The best that can be done is to minimize bias by having a nicely ...

Daniel 2:2 is written in Hebrew. In transliteration, the list of professionals that the king calls is: hartumim ashaphim mechashphim casdim The verse is an echo of Genesis 41:8. "Hartumim" appear in the story of the dreams of Pharaoh in Genesis 41:8, in Exodus 7:11 and elsewhere, as dream interpreters and fortune tellers. The word might come from ...

According to F.F. Bruce's Israel and the Nations (p 108): "the God of Heaven" is a title by which Yahweh is commonly designated under the Persian regime The phrase is not just used in Daniel, but also used in Ezra 7:12 where Ezra is designated "scribe of the law of the God of heaven" in Artaxerxe's letter to Ezra. It is used throughout the book of ...

The Rabbinic interpretation is: Messianic "Ancient of Days" is a name of God "son of man" is a mistranslation The term "ben adam" or "bar enosh" is used in OT Hebrew to mean a mortal, fallible human being. Used commonly by God when addressing mortals to remind them of their place in the general scheme of things. (And used commonly in modern Hebrew to ...

I go back and forth on my interpretation of Gen 6:1-4 as to if it is fallen angels or people. Fallen angels is certainly a view with history. That is the interpretation that the authors of 1 Enoch had (see especially Book of the Watchers). However, Walter Kaiser gives a good defense of the sons of God being human beings in The Old Testament Documents: Are ...

The Hebrew word for week is literally a time period of seven (#7620 Strong's). In Deut. 16:9 it is certainly used to refer to a time period of seven days. In Genesis 29:18-30 it is clearly used to refer to a time period of seven years! Thus, Upon seeing this word one must ask, "a time period of seven whats?" We are dependent upon textual and historical ...

This is more an expanded comment on Eli's answer than an answer in itself. Eli wrote: The intention of the list is to cover all of the possible wisdom professions and to show that none of them can compete with the word of God as given to Daniel. This is an astute observation when taking into account the style of the whole book. Long lists occur in many ...

shuwt literally means to go to and fro or to run about. It's closely related root (as a pun) 'suwt' means to turn aside, swerve, or fall away. Here is my bias in answering the question: I believe that God created the only and true Mystery religion. As such, The tree of Life is Christ himself who is the "water, water" or the Living Torah of God in heaven ...

The citation in Ezekiel 4:6 is exactly identical with a similar case of judgment in Numbers 14:34, where the Israelites were confined to the wilderness for 40 years so that each year corresponded with each day that the spies were in the land. In both Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 14:34, the expansion of "days into years" stemmed from the iniquity of the Israelites ...

There are two passages that mention "the congregation" and the "judgment" Numbers 35:12 (NKJV), "12 They shall be cities of refuge for you from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation in judgment." Joshua 20:6 (NKJV) "And he shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for ...

It seems best to take 'judgement' as including a eternal aspect. Common sense about judgment and the text before us lends itself to this conclusion. For the textual argument I think Spurgeon finds it for us: Well may the saints long for heaven, for no evil men shall dwell there, "nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous." All our congregations ...

The vision for which Daniel gives the interpretation in Daniel 2 is about the current kingdom and kingdoms that are to follow it. From history it can be seen that the kingdoms that followed the Babylonians is a match to the symbols in the vision. The kingdom of the toes was the Roman dynasty which consisted of two forms: the Roman Republic and the Roman ...

In sensus plenior; Abraham's children are likened to dust [1], sand of the sea [2] and stars [2]. These represent three classes of Abraham's children: Dust are those without the water/word. The Arab nations descended from Abraham. Sand of the sea shore- those that are in close proximity to the water/word. The Jews Stars - those who are the lights of the ...