It is fashionable among biblical scholars to assume that the book of Daniel is a pseudepigraphon written in the second century BCE. But this book demonstrates that instead, it is more probably the notes and memoirs of the prime minister of Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar, and later an official in the court of Cyrus, written in the sixth century BCE. Hence these scholars are probably mistaken: as J.I. Packer says in his foreword, there is voluminous evidence to the contrary, brought together in West's book. For example, the assumption that the book is a veiled political diatribe against the...
It is fashionable among biblical scholars to assume that the book of Daniel is a pseudepigraphon written in the second century BCE. But this book demo...
