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King of the Seleucid Empire (175–164 BC)
The materials present three durable claims: Daniel’s visions are read as a timetable linking Jerusalem’s temple to end-time events, Daniel’s “seventy weeks” framework is read by many as a prophecy tha...
The clearest connection is that frames his Olivet Discourse ( 24; 13; 21) by echoing and explicitly citing ’s apocalyptic language—most notably the “abomination of desolation” and the Son of Man image...
Scholars and interpreters divide over whether the “” in Daniel is an ancient persecutor, a symbolic institutional power, or a single future world-ruler; Daniel’s visions (the little horn, the little h...
New Testament passages connect the Jerusalem Temple to both near-term judgment (Jesus predicts its destruction in Matthew 24:1–2) and to later eschatological crisis (Paul’s “man of lawlessness” will “...