vol. 37, Issue #1

Online Journal Article: Literary Strategies And Authorship In The Book Of Daniel Branson L. Woodard, J R . Jets 37/1 (March 1994) 39-53

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/37/37-1/JETS_37-1_039-053_Woodard.pdf

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Complete article may be found here:
https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/37/37-1/JETS_37-1_039-053_Woodard.pdf

LITERARY STRATEGIES AND
AUTHORSHIP IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL
BRANSON L. WOODARD, J R .
JETS 37/1 (March 1994) 39-53

Excerpt:

Because Daniel 7!12 resembles apocalypse, a form that
came into its own during the second century BC, surely these latter chapters
were written no earlier and the author could not have been the sixth!
century Daniel, if he even existed. In turn the "abomination of desolation"
would refer to the desecration of the temple by Antiochus Epiphanes, not to
either a previous or a future such event. Further, a late date of composition
excludes any possibility of eyewitness accounts of the neo!Babylonian court,
so the "court tales" (chaps. 1!6), and perhaps the visions too, are not histories
but fictional stories written by highly imaginative, pseudonymous editors
--from the first page of the article