101 Myths of the Bible: how ancient scribes - Conscious Evolution TV

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Daniel appears to be a prophet who has a better grasp on the future than the present,
which leads to the obvious conclusion that the predictions were written after the
fact, when the later events were well known but the earlier history was a bit fuzzy.
As Antiochus Epiphanes is the last of the kings in Daniel’s predictions, we can
safely say that the author of Daniel’s predictions wrote at about 164 B.C. In support of
this date of authorship, we should note that the writer concludes his political history
with a prediction that the king identified with Antiochus will die in battle somewhere
between Jerusalem and the Mediterranean (Dan. 11:40–45) but in fact Antiochus
died far to the east in Persia, suggesting that the author was aware of Antiochus but
had not learned of his death at the time he was describing Daniel’s predictions.