From: Robert Heard <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
To: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, tladatsi AT charter.net
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Dating Daniel - Response
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:21:24 -0700 (PDT)
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?