Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Linguistic Approach

The traditional view of Daniel is to see the first half as historic and the second half as prophetic. But if you look at the language the division is much different. As I said in an earlier post the Aramaic section is chapters 2 - 7. Look at the following outline.
A.  Dream statue representing four kingdoms - Daniel 2
        B. Worship the golden statue or perish in a pit - Daniel 3
            C. Judgment on Nebuchadnezzar - Daniel 4
            C. Judgment on Belshazzar - Daniel 5
        B.  Worship Darius or perish in a pit - Daniel 6
A.   Dream of four beasts representing four kingdoms - Daniel 7

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