Loading…

Glimpsing the Mystery: The Book of Daniel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Wars, conflicts, global catastrophes, and senseless human suffering—all these have the potential to shake our faith. The message of the book of Daniel is that God desires to reveal himself in his people’s difficult situations, whether in the Babylonian exile of Daniel’s day or the crises of our own. In Glimpsing the Mystery, Barbara M. Leung Lai unpacks the stories of the first half of Daniel and...

as it is continuously elevated by the kings he serves (1:18–21; 2:47–49; 3:30; 5:17–18; 6:28).4 TIMELINE OF EVENTS IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL Supported by ancient Near Eastern sources, the historical landscape plays an important role in understanding the book as well as the setting of its first audience: Jews living in exile in Babylon in the sixth century BC. The rise and fall of kings and empires, in fairly quick succession, characterizes the turbulent world context of that time. Daniel
Page 5
Buy this book at Logos.com