Biblical Hebrew Forum

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Could ya'll comment on this hypothesis

 Stephen Miller's appropriation of D. J. Wiseman's hypothesis that "Darius 
the Mede" and Cyrus the Great were the same person, a highly speculative 
theory. This "solution" to the absence of nonbiblical references to "Darius 
the Mede" is based on the claim that Daniel 6:28, which says that "Daniel 
prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian" has 
been mistranslated and should read that "Daniel prospered in the reign of 
Darius, even in the reign of Cyrus the Persian." By claiming that the Aramaic 
waw traditionally translated with the English conjunction and could have 
meant even or namely in this verse, Wiseman and proponents of this 
interpretation "solve" the problem of Darius's historicity by making this 
just another name for Cyrus, who was mentioned in several extrabiblical 
records contemporary to the time when Daniel presumably served as an 
important official in the sixth-century BC Babylonian and Persian 
governments. We will soon see that this interpretation of Daniel 6:28 is 
tenuous at best.

Eva Ritsema

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