scholars claim that the author wrote these words after the events took place (some time in the second century B.C.). According to this view, these chapters record history (a catalog of events that have already transpired) and not prophecy (a prediction of events in the future). For those who accept the Bible as God’s truth, this controversy is settled by the claims of the book itself and by the defense of those claims by believing scholars. We also have Jesus’ own confirmation of Daniel’s existence.