Longman, Young, McComiskey), but does not depreciate the work of those (such as Collins, Bruce, Goldingay, Lucas)10 who are convinced that the book should be dated to the time of Antiochus. Their insights into the text and background of Daniel are invaluable. Although favoring the late date, Lucas (2002), for example, discusses the alleged historical inaccuracies, linguistic issues, the possibility of predictive prophecy in the book over against a prophetic inspired interpretation of history, the