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The Longest Lie — Part 5 of 11 eFireTemple.com The Book of Daniel claims to be written by a Jewish prophet living in Babylon and Persia during the sixth century BCE — roughly 600 to 530 BCE. It presents itself as a contemporary account of life in the court of Nebuchadnezzar and his successors, complete with prophetic visions received directly from God through angelic intermediaries. It was not written in the sixth century BCE.
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The Longest Lie — Part 5 of 11 eFireTemple.com The Book of Daniel claims to be written by a Jewish prophet living in Babylon and Persia during the sixth century BCE — roughly 600 to 530 BCE. It presents itself as a contemporary account of life in the court of Nebuchadnezzar and his successors, complete with prophetic visions received directly from God through angelic intermediaries. It was not written in the sixth century BCE. The scholarly consensus — shared by critical scholars across Jewish, Christian, and secular academia — is that Daniel was composed around 165 BCE, during the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes. The evidence is in the text itself, and it is not subtle. How we know the date Daniel's "prophecies" of future events are astonishingly accurate up to a very specific point in history — and then suddenly become wrong.