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of 165 B.C. for the writing of the book, as held by liberals, most unlikely.” Leon Wood, A
Commentary on Daniel (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1973), 20.

26 Jacob M. Myers, I Chronicles, The Anchor Bible (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965), LXXXVII
If.

27 R. K. Harrison, Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969), 1,118.
28 Wilson, “Book of Daniel,” 785.

29 Leupold, Exposition of Daniel, 143.

30 Robert Dick Wilson, “The Aramaic of Daniel,” in Biblical and Theological Studies (Princeton:
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1912), 296.

31 Edwin M. Yamauchi, Greece and Babylon (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1967), 17–24. See also his
article “Archaeological Backgrounds of the Exilic and Postexilic Era, Part I: The Archaeological

Background of Daniel,” Bibliotheca Sacra 137, no. 3 (January–March 1980), 13.
32 Josephus, Antiquities 1.11.2.

33 Robert Dick Wilson, Studies in the Book of Daniel, 2 vols. (vol. 1: New York: Putnam, 1917;
vol. 2: New York: Revell, 1938; 2 in 1 vol., Grand Rapids: Baker, 1979).

34 Alexander, “Hermeneutics of Old Testament Apocalyptic Literature,” 2.

35 Cf. Rowley, The Relevance of the Apocalyptic, 56–57.

36 R. D. Wilson shows that the Egyptians believed in resurrection more than 3,000 years before
Daniel and that Babylonians also commonly believed in a doctrine of resurrection (Wilson,
Studies, 124–27). Cf. Montgomery, Daniel, 84 ff.; and Archer, Survey, 380–81. Montgomery
states, “Daniel’s specialty in visions and dreams does not belong to the highest category of
revelation, that of prophecy; the Prophets had long since passed away, 1 Mac. 4:46, and the

highest business of the Jewish sage was the interpretation of their oracles” (Daniel, 132).
Montgomery rejects, of course, a sixth-century B.C. date for Daniel, well before the last of the
prophets. For refutation, see Edward J. Young, The Prophecy of Daniel (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1949), 49–50.