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THREAD: Daniel’s Date of Composition.
Until recent times, the majority of Biblical commentators took the book of Daniel to represent the memoirs of a 6th cent. exiled prophet (named Daniel).
In recent times, however, that situation has more or less reversed.
Until recent times, the majority of Biblical commentators took the book of Daniel to represent the memoirs of a 6th cent. exiled prophet (named Daniel).
In recent times, however, that situation has more or less reversed.
The majority of modern-day commentators now take the book of Daniel to have been composed—or at least to have been edited/arranged in its final form—in the days of the Maccabees, in c. 165 BC.
J. J. Collins summarises the situation as follows:
J. J. Collins summarises the situation as follows:
Below, I outline a number of reasons why I’m not convinced by (what I’ll call) ‘the Maccabean Hypothesis’.
First though, a word or two on what the Maccabean Hypothesis (hereafter ‘the MH’) actually asserts.
First though, a word or two on what the Maccabean Hypothesis (hereafter ‘the MH’) actually asserts.
