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Daniel in the Lions' Den Year c. 1614-1616 Medium oil paint, canvas Dimensions 224.2 cm (88.3 in) × 330.5 cm (130.1 in) Location National Gallery of Art Identifiers RKDimages ID: 28802 [edit on Wikidata] Daniel in the Lions' Den is a painting from around 1615 by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens that is displayed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The painting depicts ...
In the third, Daniel is troubled to read in holy scripture (the book is not named but appears to be Jeremiah) that Jerusalem would be desolate for 70 years. Daniel repents on behalf of the Jews and requests that Jerusalem and its people be restored. An angel refers to a period of 70 sevens (or weeks) of years. In the final vision, Daniel sees a ...
In each case life is preserved through divine presence in the fire or the pit. [3] The structure of Daniel 6 itself is also in the form of a chiasm: [12] A. Introduction: Daniel’s success (vv.1–3) B. Darius’s edict and Daniel’s response (vv.4–10) C. Daniel’s opponents plot his death (vv.11–15)
The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th-century BC setting. Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", [1] the text features a prophecy rooted in Jewish history, as well as a portrayal of the end times that is both cosmic in scope and political in its focus. [2]
The Book of Daniel: Composition and Reception. BRILL. ISBN 9004116753. Hammer, Raymond (1976). The Book of Daniel. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521097659. Harrington, Daniel J. (1999). Invitation to the Apocrypha. Eerdmans. ISBN 9780802846334. Hebbard, Aaron B. (2009). Reading Daniel as a Text in Theological Hermeneutics. Wipf and Stock ...
Further imagery includes Daniel 7's Son of Man (more accurately "one like a son of man"), the "holy ones of the Most High", and the eternal Kingdom of God which will follow the four kingdoms and the "little horn". [17] Chronological predictions: Daniel predicts several times the length of time that must elapse until the coming of the Kingdom of ...
The Book of Daniel is "a composite text of dubious historicity from various genres", [4] and Daniel himself is a legendary figure. [5] The book of which he is the hero divides into two parts, a set of tales in chapters 1–6 from no earlier than the Hellenistic period (323–30 BCE), and the series of visions in chapters 7–12 from the ...
Daniel is the only book in the Hebrew Bible which gives names to angels. Gabriel may have received his because he "has the appearance of a man" (Hebrew gaber); he appears here as a messenger and interpreter of God's message, the same role he was later given by the author of Luke's annunciation scene (Luke 1:19,26). [30]