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Daniel: Signs and Wonders
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Published January 1, 1984
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May 3, 2025
The next couple of weeks you will understand why I posted on May 1st the Feast of the Prophet Jeremiah. This begins the series, as Daniel the prophet was a contemporary of Jeremiah. Daniel & other young men from Judah were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (Daniel 1:1-14) in approximately 604 BCE. This captivity of citizens of Judah in Babylon lasted for 70 yrs, as God had foretold through the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 25:11).
‘Signs & Wonders: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel’ (1984) by Robert A Anderson, he was Professor of Old Testament Studies, at Ormand College of the University of Melbourne. Written while serving as Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. Part of the International Theological Commentary series.
His commentary depicts Daniel as an exemplar of loyalty to God, a faithful Jew in an alien culture. As such Daniel is a source of inspiration for those who find themselves in parallel circumstances — beset by the disadvantages of their subservient position, faced with the threat of dire physical suffering & even death, & enticed to apostasy.
Like Joseph in Egypt, however, Daniel does not withdraw from the world but participates in it. And through prayer, adherence to Torah, & trust in his God — who is in fact the God of the world — Daniel perseveres and is enabled to triumph over the world.
It is customary to describe Daniel as an ‘apocalyptic’ work, but it applies in the main, only to chapters, i.e., 2 & 7-12. The considerable amount of material is of nonapocalyptic character. He writes ‘it is not absurd to suggest that the author of Daniel had access to all of the books that came to make up the canon of the Hebrew Scriptures.
References to the figure of Daniel as such are not to be found in the NT. Nothing on Daniel the man of prayer, or Daniel the obedient servant of God. The book of Daniel reminds us that the way of obedience & faith may be attended by dire physical suffering & even death. For all the ignominy & harassment to which we of faith may be subjected by powers which seem to have won the day, ultimate victory rests not with those who resort to coercion & brute force, but with God (Dan 4:3).
‘Signs & Wonders: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel’ (1984) by Robert A Anderson, he was Professor of Old Testament Studies, at Ormand College of the University of Melbourne. Written while serving as Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies. Part of the International Theological Commentary series.
His commentary depicts Daniel as an exemplar of loyalty to God, a faithful Jew in an alien culture. As such Daniel is a source of inspiration for those who find themselves in parallel circumstances — beset by the disadvantages of their subservient position, faced with the threat of dire physical suffering & even death, & enticed to apostasy.
Like Joseph in Egypt, however, Daniel does not withdraw from the world but participates in it. And through prayer, adherence to Torah, & trust in his God — who is in fact the God of the world — Daniel perseveres and is enabled to triumph over the world.
It is customary to describe Daniel as an ‘apocalyptic’ work, but it applies in the main, only to chapters, i.e., 2 & 7-12. The considerable amount of material is of nonapocalyptic character. He writes ‘it is not absurd to suggest that the author of Daniel had access to all of the books that came to make up the canon of the Hebrew Scriptures.
References to the figure of Daniel as such are not to be found in the NT. Nothing on Daniel the man of prayer, or Daniel the obedient servant of God. The book of Daniel reminds us that the way of obedience & faith may be attended by dire physical suffering & even death. For all the ignominy & harassment to which we of faith may be subjected by powers which seem to have won the day, ultimate victory rests not with those who resort to coercion & brute force, but with God (Dan 4:3).
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