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2) The proposal that Daniel was composed mid-2nd century mainly lies in the fact that apocalyptic literature was in not produced much in the 6th century BCE but was produced much more extensively in the centuries following the 3rd century BCE. This argument may be wrong, but it is not circular.
3) Just as there is not textual claim in the book of Job that Job wrote the book of Job, nowhere in Daniel is it claimed that Daniel wrote to book of Daniel, or even that there was a single author. ...
4) Dating Daniel to either the 6th century or 2nd century does not in any way depend on the objective existence of God, the subjective acknowledgement of the existence of God, the acceptance of divine inspiration of the Biblical authors, or even the belief in prophecy. It is quite possible to believe that Daniel was divinely inspired and prophetic and that it was written in the 2nd century BCE, the 6th century BCE, both, in some other century, or in more than one century.Here you have given only one side of the argument, when in fact there are three distinct faith positions which different people can take.
One?s personal principles of faith are not diagnostic as to the dating Daniel.
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