Subject Index

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abomination of desolation, 207, 256, 279, 286

afterlife, 108, 128, 179, 201, 210, 230, 253, 284, 289, 294–96, 301, 304–6

Akkadian, 49

Ancient of Days, 186, 188

angel, 102–3, 188, 205–6, 226, 247–53, 273, 284–87

animal imagery, 121, 183–86, 188, 194, 196, 201, 203, 206

Antichrist, 190, 214–15, 272, 281–84

Antiochus Epiphanes, 190, 197, 206–7, 209–10, 226–27, 229, 271–74, 281-84, 286, 290, 199

apocalyptic, 176–77, 180, 190–92, 205, 207, 210, 215, 222, 225–29, 253, 287

Aramaic, 49, 101, 116, 119, 139, 160, 177, 202

astrology, see divination

Baal, 187

Babylon, 121, 123, 284

Babylonian Chronicle, 136

blasphemy, 137, 145–46, 151–52

Christ, 26–27, 61, 67, 87–88, 90–93, 111–12, 125, 227, 266, 282, 299

chronology, 42–45, 56, 75–76, 96, 134, 157, 190, 192–93, 201–2, 205, 207-8, 210–15, 222, 246, 253, 287–88

church/state, 170

comfort, 126, 179, 198, 245–46, 249, 292, 303

confidence, 122

control, see God, sovereignty of

covenant, 52, 219, 223, 230–39

creation, 183

culture and Christianity, 61–69, 107–8

Daniel, the book of, date, 21–24, 117

Darius the Mede, 135, 157–58, 246, 253

death, 107–12, 116, 127

demons, see Satan

deliverance, 178, 201, 208–9, 225, 229

dietary laws, 52

discipleship, 167

dispensations, 83

diviners, divination, 50, 77–78, 87, 99, 116, 183

dreams, 74, 77–78, 80, 88–89, 116, 119–20, 133

dynastic prophecy, 271

Enuma Elish, 181

envy, 166

Esther, 58

ethics, 27–29, 57–58

eunuch, 51

evil, 178, 194, 201, 208, 229, 253, 288

folly, 85–86

Gabriel, 205–6, 226, 228, 234, 250

genre, 57–60, 74, 97, 117, 133, 143–44, 158, 176–77, 180, 271–72

God, as cloud rider, 187; as king, 82, 89, 92, 103; sovereignty of, 20, 45, 56, 62, 73, 75, 79, 82, 88–89, 97, 116, 118, 122–28, 134, 142, 147–48, 164–65, 172–73, 177, 179, 193, 202, 207–8, 229, 246, 252–53, 288-92, 296–306; as warrior, 179, 189, 194, 204, 209, 247, 250–51, 253-66, 284, 288, 291–92

hermeneutics, continuity/discontinuity with the NT, 24–25, 29, 124, 236–39

history, 59, 144

horn imagery, 189, 203–4, 206

idols, 52, 62, 75, 97–101, 103–12, 134, 137, 146–47

imagery, 178, 192

Joseph, 58, 73–74, 168, 172, 290

judgment, 143, 149–50, 169, 179, 201, 209, 253, 289, 292–96, 304–6

law, 166–67, 169–70, 236, 239–40

mantic wisdom, see wisdom

Michael, 251, 284–85

mystery, 78, 80

names, 50–51

narrator, 144–45

number imagery, 190, 193, 210, 215, 222,227–28

oppression, 72

ordeal, 163

outline, 30–31

persecution, 126

postmodernism, 110–11, 153–54, 302

prayer, 78, 85, 91–92, 161, 164–65, 167, 170, 178, 220, 223, 225–26, 228–29, 240–41, 246–47

Prayer of Nabonidus, 117

pride, 47, 116, 121–30, 122–30, 134, 145, 189, 209

proverb, 92

Qumran, 117, 188

redemption, 168

relationships, 109, 240–43

repentance, 134, 147–48, 150, 178, 201, 209, 229–30, 239–43, 253

responsibility, human, 147–48, 288

revelation, 90, 150, 180

Satan and demons, 128, 256, 259, 262, 265–66

schools, 67

sea, 180–82, 184, 257

self, 110–11

Septuagint, 96

shame, 129–30

sin, 195–97, 219, 225, 240–43, 262

Son of Man, 186, 188, 198, 255

story, 58–59, 96, 101, 105, 144

temple articles, 46–47, 133, 137–38, 141, 145, 147, 151, 153

tree, 119

wisdom, 54–55, 58, 73–74, 78–79, 85–93, 101, 116, 139, 144, 242, 284

Word of God, 148, 153, 221, 228, 234–35, 237