When was the book of Daniel written, exactly? In this video, we start to break down some of the historical evidence, and look at what Daniel got right and wrong.
Selected Bibliography:
Beaulieu, Paul-Alain, 1989. The Reign of Nabonidus King of Babylon 556-539 B.C. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
________, 2018. A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75. Blackwell History of the Ancient World. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.
Briant, Pierre, 2002. From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
Collins, John J
, 1993. Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel. Ed. Frank Moore Cross. Hermeneia. Minneapolis: Fortress.
Glassner, Jean-Jacques, 2004. Mesopotamian Chronicles. Writings from the Ancient World. Atlanta, GA: SBL.
Goldingay, John
, 1989. Daniel. WBC 30. Dallas: Word Books.
Grabbe, Lester, 1987. "Fundamentalism and Scholarship: The Case of Daniel," pp. 133-152 in Scripture: Meaning and Method: Essays Presented to Anthony Tyrrell Hanson for His Seventieth Birthday. Ed. Barry Thompson. Yorkshire, England: Hull University Press.
________, 1988a. "Another Look at the Gestalt of 'Darius the Mede,'" Catholic Biblical Quarterly 50: 198-213.
________, 1988b. "The Belshazzar of Daniel and the Belshazzar of History," Andrews University Seminary Series 26: 59-66.
Grayson, Albert, 1975. Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles. TCS V. Locust Valley, NY: J.J. Augustin Publisher.
Hartman, Louis F. and Alexander A. DiLella
, 1978. The Book of Daniel: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary. AB 23. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
Kurt, Amélie, 2007. The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period. New York, NY: Routledge.
Millard, Alan, 1977. "Daniel 1-6 and History," Evangelical Quarterly 49: 67-73.
Miller, Stephen, 1994. Daniel. New American Commentary. Nashville, TN: Broadman and Holman.
Newsom, Carol
, 2014. Daniel: A Commentary. OTL. Louisville, KY.
Westminster John Knox.
Seow, Choon-Leong
, 2003. Daniel. WestBC. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox.
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