Concerning the languages of the book and their relation to the date of its authorship, Dr. Driver once wrote, “The verdict of the language of Daniel is thus clear. The Persian words presuppose a period after the Persian empire had been well established: the Greek words demand, the Hebrew supports, and the Aramaic permits, a date after the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great (B.C. 332)” Literature of the Old Testament, Edinburgh, 1909 p. 508. This statement would now have to be modified.