Old Testament

Week 26: Daniel

30 April 2026

Notes, slides & video will be posted after the class has been held.

• My interpretation of the second half of Daniel (chs. 7–12)—which is drawn from mainstream, scholarly commentaries—is only accurate if this portion of the book of Daniel was written after ca. 167 ʙ.ᴄ. Recent A.I.-aided radiocarbon dating of 4Q114, a manuscript of Daniel chs. 8–11 from the Dead Sea Scrolls, has given it a likely composition date of between 230 and 160 ʙ.ᴄ. See “Many of Dead Sea Scrolls May Be Older than Thought, Experts Say,” The Guardian, 4 June 2025. (The research was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS One.)