The German literary critical movement seized avidly on Porphyry’s supposition that the book could contain no predictive element, and with Porphyry repudiated the Jewish and Christian tradition of a sixth century B.C. date of composition for the book, despite the arguments of some conservative scholars. Harrison, professor of Old Testament at the University of Toronto, writes: “Objections to the historicity of Daniel were copied uncritically from book to book, and by the second decade of the twentieth