Daniel

by Baldwin, Joyce G.

• ISBN13: 9780830842230
• ISBN10: 0830842233
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-30
• Publisher: Ivp Academic

Summary

Daniel is a difficult book. But it is a book about the meaning of history, and people today need its message. The whole church needs reassurance, especially in view of Marxist claims to be able by human effort to introduce a utopian world government. "When the church lets part of its message go by default people look elsewhere for a substitute," writes Joyce Baldwin. "All the more reason, then, why the church needs to be counting on the certainties proclaimed by Daniel, namely that God is constantly overruling and judging in the affairs of men, putting down the mighty from their seats, overthrowing unjust regimes and effectively bringing in His kingdom, which is to embrace all nations."The original, unrevised text of this volume has been completely retypeset and printed in a larger, more attractive format with the new cover design for the series.

Table of Contents

General preface

Author's Preface

Chief Abbreviations

Introduction

A preliminary look at the book

Questions of history

The original languages

Date and unity of the book

Literary genre

Structure

Interpretation

Text and Canon

Some dates of importance for the book of Daniel

Fragments of Daniel manuscripts from Qumran

Other documents relating to Daniel

Analysis

Commentary

Additional Notes

Nebuchadnezzar's dream statue

The prayer of Nabonidus

'Son of Man'

Some interpretations of the Seventy Sevens

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