RE: Prophecies of Daniel.
March 7, 2013 at 6:01 am
(This post was last modified: March 7, 2013 at 6:04 am by Justtristo.)
(March 6, 2013 at 2:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Here.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/c...aniel.html
Quote:The Unfulfilled Predictions
Daniel 10-12, the fourth vision and the key to the entire book, describes the history of Israel from Daniel's day until the Messianic Kingdom. Mostly, it describes the wars between the main successor states of the Greek Empire, namely the Seleucid "king of the north" in Syria and the Ptolemaic "king of the south" in Egypt, culminating in the career of Antiochus Epiphanes and the Maccabean War. However, from Daniel 11:40 until the end of the book, the prophecy's description of the fate of Antiochus at the end of the world deviates seriously from real history.
It seems that everything "Daniel" predicted prior to 167 BC "happened" and everything he predicted after 167 BC did not. This suggests that it was written in 167 BC in the midst of the Maccabaean revolt against the Seleucid empire.
Fully agreed, interestingly enough Daniel is the only book in the bible that can be reliably dated, which is around 167 BC.
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