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Daniel 8 The vision of the Ram and the He-goat
The vision Account
In the chronological framework of the Book of Daniel, two years have elapsed between the first of Daniel's apocalyptic Visions in chapter 7 and this one in chapter 8. We are now purportedly in the third year of King Belshazzar (perhaps about 546 B.C); if Belshazzar ruled ten years as co-regent with Nabonidus and was in Babylon on the night of its fall to the Persian forces on October 11,539 B.C--the scene immortalized Persian in Daniel 5. then the vision of this chapter supposedly took place about seven years before the final demise of Babylon. In fact, of course, we need to assume that the "many days hence" ( v. 26) to which the vision is addressed is the actual time of the author's own life and that the events leading up to the culminating moment of truth recorded in verse 25 have already taken place before the author's own time. We need to assume that the vision as a whole is a prophecy after the fact. Why? Because human beings are unable accurately to predict future events centuries in advance and to say that Daniel could do so, even on the basis of a symbolic revelation vouchsafed to him by God and interpreted by an angel, is to fly in the face of the certainties of human nature. So what we have here is in fact not a road map of the future laid down in the sixth century B.c. but an interpretation of the events of the author's time, 167-164 B.C., which is illuminated by the incandescent and indispensable claim of faith thst injustice and oppression will be brought to a full end by God. The lapse of two years' time since the dream vision of chapter 7 may actually be very easily explained: perhaps an author has been driven by this delay of the eschaton to offer a restatement and updating of the earlier "history" of the End.
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