In Daniel 8 one angel asks another how long "the transgression that makes desolate" will last Daniel 9 tells of "the prince who is to come" who "shall make sacrifice and offering cease, and in their place shall be an abomination that desolates" Daniel 11 tells the history of the arrogant foreign king who sets up the "abomination that makes desolate" and in Daniel 12 the prophet is told how many days will pass "from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that desolates is set up…" In reaction to this, the visionary chapters of Daniel, chapters 7-12, were added to reassure Jews that they would survive in the face of this threat. At that time a lamb was sacrificed twice daily, morning and evening, on the altar of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem, but in 167 BCE Antiochus IV, the king of the Greek Seleucid dynasty which then ruled Palestine, put an end to the practice. Coin of Antiochus IV: the inscription reads "King Antiochus, God manifest, bearer of victory"Ĭhapters 1–6 of the Book of Daniel originated as a collection of folktales among the Jewish community in the late 4th to early 3rd centuries BCE.
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