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  • From: "thebodyofjesusthenazoraion AT juno.com" <thebodyofjesusthenazoraion AT juno.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] b-hebrew Digest, Darius the Mede and
  • Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:51:08 GMT

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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