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B'. (6:1–28) – Daniel in the lions' den; A'. (7:1–28) – A vision of four world kingdoms replaced by a fifth; Daniel 1 serves as an introduction to the book, showing how God continues to move throughout history when men seem to have failed (i.e., how God stands for his people when they are in a foreign land and subject to an alien power ...
Chapter 6: Daniel in the Lions's Den; Chapter 7: The Four Beasts; Chapter 8: The Ram, He-Goat and Horn; Chapter 9: The Seventy Weeks; Chapters 10–12: Daniel's final vision; Additions to Daniel: - Song of the Three Holy Children - Susanna and the Elders (Daniel 13) - Bel and the Dragon (Daniel 14)
The Book of Daniel is a 2nd century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th century BC setting. [1] Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", [2] 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. [1]
The Book of Ezra (8:2) mentions a priest named Daniel who went from Babylon to Jerusalem with Ezra. [4] The First Book of Chronicles (3:1) mentions a son of David called Daniel. Daniel (Dn'il, or Danel) is also the name of a figure in the Aqhat legend from Ugarit. [4]
Daniel, Bel and the Dragon (France, 15th century) The chapter contains a single story which may previously have represented three separate narratives, [2] [3] [4] which place Daniel at the court of Cyrus, king of the Persians: "When King Astyages was laid to rest with his ancestors, Cyrus the Persian succeeded to his kingdom."
Detail from the church of Lambrechtshagen, Germany, 1759: Daniel in the lions' den with Darius the Mede above. Darius the Mede is mentioned in the Book of Daniel as King of Babylon between Belshazzar and Cyrus the Great, but he is not known to secular history and there is no space in the historical timeline between those two verified rulers. [1]
This translation was known as the "Biblia del Oso" (in English: Bear Bible) [1] because the illustration on the title page showed a bear trying to reach a container of honeycombs hanging from a tree. [2] Since that date, it has undergone various revisions, notably those of 1865, 1909, 1960, 1977, 1995, [3] 2004, 2011, and 2015.
Daniel 8 is an interpretation of the author's own time, 167–164 BCE, with a claim that God will bring to an end the oppression of the Jewish people. [19] It begins with the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire , touches on the rise of the four Greek successor kingdoms, and then focuses on the career of Antiochus IV Epiphanes , who took the ...