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The Use of Daniel in Jewish Apocalyptic Literature and in the Revelation of St. John is unavailable, but you can change that!

A detailed critical analysis of various apocalyptic texts which poses a solution to the problem concerned with the method of studying allusive Old Testament material, particularly from Daniel. This study shows how Daniel helped mold the eschatological thinking of both Jews and Christians around the time of Christ.

prerequisite that the content of the dream be known before interpretation can be made (cf. 2:5–7, 9, 26). So Daniel first describes the dream itself to the king (2:31–36a) and then gives the interpretation of it (2:36b–45). Both the description of the dream’s content and the interpretation are divinely inspired, having been “revealed” or “made known” to Daniel by God. The seer’s concluding statement of the interpretation in 2:45 emphasizes this point. Thus, there is a God-given communication to man
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