![]() But what is its historiographical context? If one assumes that “predictive” elements in Daniel are ex eventu, then the crux interpretum for discovering the historical backdrop for the apocalyptic vision of Daniel 7 is one’s identification of the historical referent for the main antagonist in chaps. ![]() Daniel 7 pictures the four Gentile empires as four Beasts which are judged by the “Ancient of Days,” a prophetic vision that is purported to have taken place within the context of an exilic timeframe (“In the first year of King Belshazzar of Babylon” 7:1). The historiographical elements in the symbolic dream vision of Daniel 7 locate the Jews, God’s people, within the broad sweep of human (not just Jewish) history, a history that is periodized (Babylon, Media, Persia, Greece) and divinely determined.
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