What chapter is Daniel?

Answer 1

Daniel is not a chapter. Daniel is a book in the Old Testament part of The Bible The bookof Daniel tells the story of the life of Daniel.

Daniel was one of the young Jewish captives carried off to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar when Jehoiakim was king of Judah (about 604 B.C.). His name means "God is my Judge."

Answer 2

Ch.1 - Daniel in Nevuchadnezzar's palace; insists on kosher food.
Ch.2 - Daniel interprets the king's (Nevuchadnezzar's) dream, of a beast made of gold, silver, brass, iron and clay. It hints to four kingdoms.
Ch.3 - Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, Daniel's young friends, refuse to bow to a statue put up by the king. They are cast into a furnace but God prevents the fire from burning them.
Ch.4 - The king dreams of a great tree cut down and a man humbled by losing his sanity and living among the animals. Daniel tells him that this would befall him, the king; and it came true.
Ch.5 - The Chaldean king Belshazzar sees a disembodied hand writing on a wall. Daniel tells him that the mysterious words hint that his (Belshazzar's) rule will not last. Belshazzar is killed that very night.
Ch.6 - Daniel continues his regular prayers despite a decree forbidding such prayers. The king, Darius, has him tossed among hungry lions, but God prevents them from harming him.
Ch.7 - Daniel dreams of four strange beasts, hinting to four kingdoms.
Ch.8 - Daniel has a vision of a ram and a goat, hinting to Persia, Medea and Greece.
Ch.9 - Daniel prays to God.
Ch.10 - Daniel speaks to the angel.
Ch.11 - The angel tells Daniel of future wars between kings.
Ch.12 - Daniel is told that the meaning of the prophecy will remain hidden until the end-times. See also: History of the Hebrew Bible

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Answer 3

Philip R. Davies (The Oxford History of the Biblical World, 'The social world of apocalyptic writings') says the former view that all of the Book of Daniel was composed in the Maccabean period is obsolete. He says that it is now widely accepted that chapters l-6 are earlier and reflect a different social setting from the visions of chapters 7-12. All but the most conservative interpreters agree that chapters 7-12 date from the time of the Maccabean revolt, specifically to the period between Antiochus' decrees of 167 BCE and Judah's cleansing of the Temple at the end of 163. So chapter 1-6 pre-date chapters 7-12 by perhaps two centuries.

The book's references to Nebuchadnezzar seem most likely based on a misreading of the narrative in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, while the other stories in Daniel about Nebuchadnezzar seem at least in part based on legends rising out of the reign of Nabonidus. This was first recognised by W. von Soden but confirmed in a startling way by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scroll known as 4Q Prayer of Nabonidus.

The Catholic and Orthodox Bibles contains an additional passage known as Prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Holy Children, and two additional chapters from a later period, chapters 13 and 14, none of which was in the original Hebrew Bible. The additional chapters are the stories of Susanna and of Bel and the Dragon.

The Book of Daniel contains some important discrepancies against the historical order of events. History tells us that Cyrus was the Persian king who conquered Babylon, but the earlier author of Daniel seems to have believed that Darius I conquered the Babylonians and that Cyrus was a successor. The author of the final chapters does not challenge this, but chapter 10 says, in the time of King Cyrus, that the fourth king to come will stir up the Greeks. Historically, the fourth king after Cyrus was Xerxes I, who invaded Greece, suggesting that this author knew rather more about what was by then already ancient history than the earlier author had known.

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