A Study in Daniel Introduction and part of chapter 1
A Study in Daniel Introduction : Daniel went into exile some time around 605 B.C. and continued to the third year of Cyrus (about 536 B.C.) which is a period of about 69 years. There is a great deal of debate about the date of this book because some scholar cannot accept some of the very specific predictive prophecy in this book. In terms of history, we know that the Babylonian empire started with Nebuchadnezzar’s father Nebopolassar. Nebuchadnezzar’s reign was from 605 B.C to 562 B.C. He was noted for large building projects which he brags about in Daniel 4:30 After the Babylonian empire came to Medes and the Persians and then the Greeks. There is a large section of writing in this book that is in Aramaic. This was the commercial language of the day in which this was written. The Aramaic section begins from 2:4b and continues to 7:28. The emphasis in this section is on the nations of the world. King Jehoiakim who is mentioned in chapter one was a king that