to in the third person, this is not uncommon for ancient writers. Xenophon authored Anabasis even though he used the third person to refer to himself. The same is true of Caesar’s Gallic Wars. The position taken in this commentary is that the prophet Daniel, shortly after 536/35 BC, wrote the book bearing his name in its entirety. Aside from the issue of predictive prophecy, critical scholars raise a number of objections to the traditional position of the date and authorship. These will now be considered