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OT366 Book Study: Daniel and Its Literary and Historical Contexts introduces you to the content and structure of the book of Daniel, as well as its literary and historical contexts. Dr. Wendy Widder navigates the many interpretive issues and complexities of critical scholarship in Daniel and presents them in a fair, concise, and accessible way, providing much clarity to what can often be a...

God’s people are in exile in Babylon. In a discussion on the book of Ezekiel, who was a prophet of the exile, OT scholar Daniel Block describes the effect of exile on God’s people as an intense condition of theological shock. This theological shock resulted from their devastated sense of security as God’s people. They had always assumed that Yahweh was obligated to rescue them, and yet they had landed in exile.