[Serious] The Story

[John 6IX Breezy]

Just so that we are clear, what is stated in the Wikipedia article on the Book of Daniel is wrong:

The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting.[1]

Yes, I see no empirical data on that. And even the author they are referencing, who agrees with a later date, doesn't put it in such indisputable words: "The most probable time of composition of these stories is the third or early second century B.C" (Collins, 1984, p. 34). Probable and Third are not trivial words that can be omitted from that sentence.

ps. Even though the author offers no evidence for his position, he makes an interesting argument in his book. The author writes:

"The main point at issue in this debate is not so much the date [emphasis added] of the tales but the authenticity of the predictions in chs. 7-12. Here it must be said that the evidence of the genre [epmhasis added] creates a great balance of probability in favor of the critical viewpoint... The burden of proof must fall on those who wish to argue that Daniel is different from the other examples of the genre [emphasis added]."

This sounds like a literary version of the ecological fallacy—in which inferences about individuals are deduced from inferences about the group.