Not the Temple, but the Texts Were the Real Target – Antiochus Epiphanes
In December 167 BCE, the Temple in Jerusalem was desecrated. An alien cult was imposed, the altar was profaned, and the event entered Jewish memory …
The Fear of Prophecy: Why the Mainstream Can’t Explain the Book of Daniel Without Contradicting Itself
Modern criticism can consider almost every explanation for Daniel except the one Daniel himself gives: that he received knowledge of events before they happened. The …
Chapter 19 — How the Antiochus Interpretation Entered the Text
The name Antiochus was never inserted into Daniel 8. The interpretation entered more subtly, through a cluster of Greek renderings that made his crisis the …
Chapter 13 — The New God of Fortresses
The final stage of the northern argument does not begin with Zeus. It begins with the sequence of Daniel 11:36–39 and with the authority that …