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The book of Daniel opens with a dark period in Israel’s history and ends with a panoramic view of future world events. The early chapters offer a glimpse into Israel’s captivity and the daily struggles of those who remained faithful to Jehovah. These stories from Daniel’s personal life contain valuable principles for the Christian today. As the introduction to biblical prophecy, the book’s later...

The final chapters of the book of Daniel relate events in which Daniel is the central character. As he relates these personal experiences, it is appropriate for him to write in the first person. In The Antiquities of the Jews 11.8.5, the Jewish historian Josephus records an early belief in Daniel’s authorship: “When the book of Daniel was showed [Alexander], wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.”2
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