. Before going on to the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, let’s pause here and reflect on the contrast between Babylonian wisdom and God’s wisdom. Many readers of Daniel 2 go right to the fantastic dream and its interpretation and believe that the first part of the chapter is simply setting the scene for the dream itself. Actually, though, the main point of the book is not the dream but rather showing the superiority of Yahweh’s wisdom to anything that the four