Keith Essex
Daniel

Keith Essex's correlating video lecture(s) from The Master's Seminary:

• Lecture 27: Introduction to Daniel; and
• Lecture 28: Themes, Purpose, Structure, and Interpretive Problems of Daniel.

14. Daniel [MSB, 1199-1200; ESVSB, 1581-5; HSB, 1429-2]
    1. Introduction
       1. Title: "Daniel"
       2. Date of Events: From 605 BC (Dan 1:1) to 536 BC (Dan 10:1) [See The Historical Background of Daniel]
       3. Canonical Connection: between Esther and Ezra / Nehemiah
    2. Major Themes [see NIDOTTE, 4:499-505] {"king," 190x; "kingdom," 69x}
       1. Sovereignty of God over the Kingdoms of Man (Dan 2-11; Dan 4:17)
       2. Israel as a Remnant Subject to the Gentiles (Dan 1; 9) ["the times of the Gentiles" (Luke 21:24)]
       3. The Progression of Gentile Kingdoms (Dan 2; 7)
       4. The Pride of Gentile Kings (Dan 2-5; 7-8; 11)
       5. The Ultimate Establishment of God's Kingdom (Dan 2; 7; 12)
    3. Purpose: The sweep of human history during Gentile domination ["the times of the Gentiles"] until the establishment of God's Kingdom upon the earth is presented.
    4. The Literary Development (see outline) [CBCOT, 57; see BibSac 160:3 (July, 2003) 269-82] [See Daniel; Daniel 2:1 - 7:28; and Daniel 8:1 - 12:13]
    5. Bibliography
       1. Exegetical:
          • Goldingay, Daniel (WBC).
          • Lucas, Daniel (AOTC).
       2. English Interpretation:
          • Miller, Daniel (NAC).
          • Walvoord, Daniel.
          • Wood, A Commentary on Daniel.
          • Young, The Prophecy of Daniel.
       3. Expositional:
          • none
    6. Selected Interpretive Problems
       1. The Date of the Book [MSB, 1199; ESVSB, 1581-2]
          1. c. 530 B.C. (cf. Dan 10:1) [Walvoord; Wood; EBC; BKC]
          2. c. 165-150 B.C. [Goldingay; Lucas]
       2. The Dating of Dan 1:1 (cf. Jer. 25:1) and Dan 2:1 [MSB, 1201; ESVSB, 1587; HSB, 1433] [See Daniel 2:1 / Daniel 1:5]
       3. The Kingdoms of Daniel 2 [MSB, 1202-4; ESVSB, 1590; HSB, 1436-7; CBCOT, 105]
          1. All Babylon
          2. Unspecified except for Babylon [Goldingay]
          3. Babylon, Media, Persia, Greece [Lucas (?)]
          4. Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome (cf. Dan 8:20) [Walvoord; Wood; EBC; BKC]
       4. The Testimony of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan 4:1-37) [MSB, 1206; ESVSB, 1594-5; HSB, 1440] [See Daniel 2 / Daniel 7 ^{[cf. MSB, 1228]}]
          1. Conversion to Yahweh [Walvoord (?); Wood; EBC (?); BKC (?)]
          2. The Greatness and Authority of Yahweh [Goldingay; Lucas; KD]
       5. The Identity of Darius the Mede (Dan 5:31) [MSB, 1210; ESVSB, 1597; HSB, 1444]
          1. Cyrus (cf. Dan 6:28) [Walvoord (?); Lucas (?)]
          2. Ugbaru [BKC]
          3. Gubaru [Wood; EBC]
          4. Cambyses
          5. A Non-historical Person
       6. The Identity of the "Little Horn" (Dan 7:8, 20-26; 8:9-14, 23-26) [MSB, 1212-6; ESVSB, 1605; HSB, 1446, 1448-9]
          1. Antiochus Epiphanes [Goldingay; Lucas]
          2. The Man of Sin (ch. 7) Prefigured by Antiochus Epiphanes (ch. 8) [Walvoord; Wood; EBC; BKC]
       7. The "Seventy Sevens" (Dan 9:24-27) [MSB, 1218; ESVSB, 1608; HSB, 1451-2; CBCOT, 106]
          1. Symbolic [Goldingay; Lucas]
          2. Literal
             1. From Daniel to Antiochus Epiphanes
             2. From Ezra to the Messiah to the End of the Tribulation [Wood; EBC]
             3. From Nehemiah to the Messiah to the End of the Tribulation [Walvoord; BKC]
       8. The King of Dan 11:36-45 [MSB, 1222-6; ESVSB, 1616-7; HSB, 1456]
          1. Antiochus Epiphanes [Goldingay; Lucas]
          2. The 'Antichrist' [Walvoord; Wood; EBC; BKC]
       9. The Number of Kings Referred to in Dan 11:40 [MSB, 1222; ESVSB, 1617; HSB, 1456]
          1. Three; i.e., the 'Antichrist,' the South, the North [Walvoord; Wood; BKC]
          2. Two; i.e., the 'Antichrist' (North) and the South [EBC]
          3. Two; i.e., Antiochus (North) and the Ptolemaic King (South) [Goldingay; Lucas]
       10. The 1290 Days (Dan 12:11) and 1335 Days (Dan 12:12) [MSB, 1223-4; ESVSB, 1618; HSB, 1458]
           1. Symbolic
           2. Literal
              1. Antiochus Epiphanes [Goldingay]
              2. The Period between the End of the Tribulation and the Beginning of the Millennium [Walvoord; Wood; EBC; BKC]
    7. Preaching Daniel

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