Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Daniel is episodic rather than linear: it has no plot as such. It does, however, have a structure. Chapters 2–7 form a chiasm, a literary figure in which elements mirror each other: chapter 2 is the counterpart of chapter 7, chapter 3 of chapter 6, and chapter 4 of chapter 5, with the second member of each pair advancing the first in some way.
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]
C'. (chapter 5) – Daniel interprets the handwriting on the wall for Belshazzar; B'. (chapter 6) – Daniel in the lions' den; A'. (chapter 7) – A vision of four world kingdoms replaced by a fifth; Daniel 5 is thus composed as a companion-piece to Daniel 4, the tale of the madness of Nebuchadnezzar, the two giving variations on a single theme.
The last mention of Daniel in the Book of Daniel is in the third year of Cyrus (Daniel 10:1). Rabbinic sources suppose that he was still alive during the reign of the Persian king Ahasuerus (better known as Artaxerxes – Babylonian Talmud, Megillah 15a, based on the Book of Esther 4, 5), but he was killed by Haman , the wicked prime minister ...
Chapter 4: Nebuchadnezzar's Madness; Chapter 5: Belshazzar's Feast; 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 ...
Chapter 4: Nebuchadnezzar's Madness; Chapter 5: Belshazzar's Feast; 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 ...
In chapter 7, Daniel has a vision of four beasts coming up out of the sea, and is told that they represent four kingdoms: A beast like a lion with eagle's wings (v. 4). A beast like a bear, raised up on one side, with three Curves between its teeth (v. 5). A beast like a leopard with four wings of fowl and four heads (v. 6).
The seventy weeks prophecy is internally dated to "the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, by birth a Mede" (Daniel 9:1), [34] later referred to in the Book of Daniel as "Darius the Mede" (e.g. Daniel 11:1); [35] however, no such ruler is known to history and the widespread consensus among critical scholars is that he is a literary fiction. [36]