Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Robert Heard <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>]

Peter Kirk wrote:
>I don't think that anyone who believes that the book of Daniel is the 
>inspired word of God would accept that words explicitly attributed to 
>Daniel and dated in the book (i.e. most of chapters 7-12) were in fact 
>written more than 300 years later.

Peter, in my opinion your statement holds true only if your "anyone" 
presupposes that divine inspiration rules out pseudepigraphical 
first-person discourse. But why should it? Why should God not have the 
option of inspiring first-person pseudepigraphical discourse if God so 
chose?


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R. Christopher Heard
Assistant Professor of Religion
Pepperdine University
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