by Justin Marple | Jan 21, 2015 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
I found a handout that I had made in 2006 detailing the structure of the Book of Daniel as having an introductory chapter followed by a double chiasm. After studying Daniel yet again over the last couple years this outline is the best there is as far as I am...
by Justin Marple | Jan 13, 2015 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
I offer this article as a starting point for understanding Daniel 8 and 9. These chapters are apocalyptic visions and need to be interpreted as such. When I say that we could add these things to our table I am referencing the table available in the previous article...
by Justin Marple | Nov 17, 2014 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
When we looked at Daniel 2 for these commentary posts I did not spend any time unpacking the content of the vision and its interpretation because I wanted to save that discussion for our exploration of the similar vision of Daniel 7. You can find here a pdf of some...
by Justin Marple | Nov 17, 2014 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
Continuing in the book of Daniel we come next to Daniel 5 and then Daniel 6. Daniel 5 is the judgment of Belshazzar and Daniel 6 is the lions’ den story. Both of these are wisdom stories and even court narratives. Both of these have had parallel chapters that...
by Justin Marple | Nov 4, 2014 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
The commentary below assumes that you will supplement these observations with what you hear in the sermons on Daniel 3 and Daniel 4 elsewhere on this site (2013 sermons) and that you have in front of you the pdf handout available as a link on the first Daniel...
by Justin Marple | Oct 28, 2014 | Daniel Commentary, Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles, OT Writings Commentary, TEACHING
This post tries to focus on some of the things not mentioned in the sermons on Daniel 1 & 2 available elsewhere on this website (2013 sermons). It also assumes that you have the handout linked on the previous post about Daniel (”The Unity of Daniel”)....
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