Timeline for Was the author of Daniel 7-11 a traditionalist?
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| Feb 8, 2023 at 8:55 | comment | added | user329957 | No it’s more to do with how we can be reasonably confident he was a traditionalist Jew based on the writing evidence. | |
| Feb 8, 2023 at 1:59 | comment | added | Ruminator | Is this a moral question? Like, "How can someone be writing sacred scripture if it is a forgery?" | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 20:07 | comment | added | Dan Fefferman | The question is not whether the book is reliable, but --assuming it was not written in Daniel's time -- whether its author was a traditionalist Jew. | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 2:58 | answer | added | Dan Fefferman | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 12:23 | comment | added | Biblasia | @StephenDisraeli I'm not sure that "complicate" is the best characterization of your suggestion that Daniel had plural authors. "Muddy the waters" seems more apropos. Daniel was certainly a polyglot, and gifted author. He used multiple languages in the book, which is why so many doubt he could have written it all himself. Hebrew courses often reserve Daniel for last, as it requires great scholarship to correctly understand it. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 11:28 | comment | added | Stephen Disraeli | Just to complicate things, I suggest the possibility that the Aramaic ch7 is really the climax of the first half, in which case the author of ch8 onwards could be building on the work of the earlier aithor. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 11:18 | comment | added | Biblasia | In Thailand, most people use ordinary, tepid water when engaged in the nation-wide Songkran "water fight" festival. A few actually throw ice water. Those who cast ice water get a vigorous volley in response! The same seems true of certain truth-filled portions of the Bible: the more it "steps on toes," the more people attack it as illegitimate in some way. No part of Daniel can rightly be considered a forgery. The last chapters are even more crucial than the earlier ones. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 11:04 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 24, 2023 at 10:45 | comment | added | Dottard | I agree that if we take the "Daniel" as writing a forgery, then nothing in the book is reliable. | |
| Jan 24, 2023 at 10:21 | history | asked | user329957 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |