![]() ![]() o 587 BC: The Babylonian army breaks through the walls of Jerusalem on the 17th day of Tammuz, followed 3 weeks later by the destruction of Solomon’s temple on the 9th day of Av (which is the same anniversary date as would be in 70 AD when the 2nd temple (Herod’s temple) is destroyed by the Roman army). o 602 BC: Nebuchadnezzar’s dream o 598 BC: The prophet Ezekiel is taken captive, and about 10,000 others. He also took along some vessels of gold and silver from Solomon’s temple, for worship. ![]() Timeline : o 606 BC: God allowed Nebuchadnezzar to take the first group as captives. Daniel and his friends were possibly eunuchs: Isaiah 39:6-7. ![]() King Nebuchadnezzar took some of the best or most promising young men for service in Babylon. How could anyone predict the future, and especially in such great detail? Daniel and his 3 friends were uprooted from Israel, as teenagers, and taken to Babylon, to be schooled in the language, customs, etc. If you wanted to “prove” to someone that the Bible was real, and the God is real, you could turn to the book of Daniel. o Dead Sea Scrolls (3rd century BC to about 70 AD?) Isaiah mentions King Cyrus by name 200 years ahead of time (Isaiah 45:1,13) o Daniel Chapters 2-7 are in Aramaic o Daniel Chapters 1 & 8-12 are in Hebrew o Later translations, of which there are thousands, were written in Latin, English, Spanish, etc., but the autographs were written in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek The book of Daniel was completed about 530 BC (probably written starting around 587 BC) About 1/3 of the Bible was prophetic at the time of writing Jeremiah & Ezekiel were contemporaries of Daniel Critics claim that Daniel must have been written after many of the prophesied events took place (after Alexander the Great, the building of the Roman empire, after Antiochus Epiphanies, etc.), since it is so accurate in predictions o Key prophecies: the 4 empires of chapters 2 & 7 are Babylon, Media/Persia, Greece, and Rome The “70 weeks of Daniel”-the first 69 “weeks” (i.e., blocks of 7year periods) led up to the triumphal entry (and subsequent rejection) of Jesus Christ the last “week” is still in the future Eschatological prophecies at the time of the end (Daniel 12) o Jesus called Daniel a prophet in Matthew 24:15-this should settle the argument about whether or not Daniel was written after the fact o The Septuagint (i.e., the pre-Christian Greek translation of the Old Testament) already translated old/obsolete language structures in grammar, etc., in Daniel, in the 2nd century BC A comparison with writings from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic suggest that Daniel was written hundreds of years prior to the Septuagint. o All of the New Testament was written in Greek. The books of the Bible were originally written in three languages: o Only the book of Daniel has some Aramaic in it the rest of the Old Testament was written in Hebrew. Chuck Missler Original notes: February 2003 With revisions and additions: November 2011-March 2012 Bible Study Notes on the Book of Daniel Ed Knorr’s study notes-based largely on work by Dr. ![]()
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