PruePhillip
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The Dating of the Book of Daniel. - westminster.edu
www4.westminster.edu/staff/brennie/rel101/daniel.htm
The most obvious conclusion would be that the Book of Daniel was written at the time of the profanation of the Temple by Antiochus IV, during the Maccabean revolt which that sacrilege provoked. That would explain why the author is not very precise about sixth century events, why he is so precise about the time of Antiochus, and why he was never counted among the prophets.
A good point. This is how modern scribes "date" books they don't wish to explain away.
But Daniel spoke of the Messiah coming to his temple and being cut off by the Romans,
plus the destruction of the Temple. So Daniel had to be written, at the earliest, about the
First Century AD.
And Ezekiel's account (chapter 38,39) has yet to happen (the new Israel's war with
Magog and the Muslim world) so Ezekiel hasn't been written yet.