The Book of
Daniel Intro
Before chapter 1≈ 2 min12 chapters
Images are artistic interpretations.
In 30 seconds
Exiles in Babylon, given new names.
Young men who will not bow.
A furnace, a lions’ den, two kings humbled.
Visions of empires that rise and fall,
and a kingdom that will never end.
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Who wrote it
Where it happens
Stylised map · locations approximate
On the map
From Jerusalem to Babylon
From Jerusalem to Babylon on the Euphrates, where the stories happen. One vision comes at Susa in Elam, later a royal city of Persia; the last, beside the Tigris.
Big themes
How it’s built
Stories, then visions
Whiteboard
Six stories, then four visions. Chapters 2 and 7 tell the same four kingdoms. From 2:4 to the end of 7 the book is in Aramaic, the empire’s language; the rest is Hebrew.
How to read it
True stories of faith under pressure.
Visions in pictures, explained in part.
God rules, then and now.
Watch for
One like the Son of Man
Daniel 7:13–14
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Question
Quick question
Chapter 6 tells it. You may already know the story.
What did Daniel do when praying to God was made a crime?
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