The aim of this study is to understand the themes of the transgression and abomination as related to destruction in Daniel 8 and 9. Patrick A. Etoughe raises the following questions: Do the phrases, "the transgression of desolation" (Dan 8:13), and the "abomination of desolation" (Dan 9:27) point to the same events or have the same referents? The study answers this by first giving an overview of the interpretation of the phrases among scholars. How these phrases have been understood in the history of Interpretation from the Jewish historian Josephus, the Talmud up to the modern interpreters?...