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Frenetic scholarly activity has raged over differing interpretations of the book of Daniel. Many liberal scholars claim that it is full of fanciful accounts, some that the prophecies were written after the events occurred. Bob Fyall deals with such questions in his introduction before he goes on to explain the text. He shows us why it was written and when it was written. Daniel is an excellent...

however, is brief and unemotional. Certainly this is not the final devastating sack of the city (for which see 2 Kings 24:10–25:21), but the first raid on the city in 605 BC which was to be followed by a further capture of the city in 597 and the final destruction in 587. However, from the perspective of the author all this had already happened and the whole question of whether God was in control was an agonisingly real one. Three factors, of great significance for the book, emerge in these first
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