[Zionist Conspirator]

The Book of Daniel also appears to contain words of Greek origin, which is one of the arguments given by the higher critics for it having been written in the days of the Maccabees and then retrojected to the time of Daniel. Since I reject the late-dating of Daniel on these grounds, there is no reason to late-date the Zohar for such similar reasons.

You are a true polymath, wideawake!

[wideawake]

Thank you, sir.

I would add that when Daniel lived in the Babylonian captivity Greek-speaking Ionians were a well-known presence in the Empire, and had been known in the region for centuries.

The Ionians were known as Yavan in the Torah and were known as Yawani in the Indian Mahabharata - and historical-critical "scholars" more or less unanimously agree that the Mahabharata was written (1) at the same time as the Biblical Daniel lived and (2) a thousand miles further away from Ionia than where Daniel lived.

[MeanWestTexan]

I would think the existence of the book of Daniel in Dead Sea scrolls would put that to rest.

Physically, the Dead Sea copies of the BOD were written somewhere about 150 BC -— the hammer period of the Maccabees being just 15ish years before this.

The isolated hermit folks that wrote and preserved the DSS just don’t strike me as the kind of folks that would incorporate some brand new book of the Bible.

Ergo, I’m with you. 550BCish