Guiding Questions: Daniel 7

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. How is the structure of Daniel 7 different from those which preceded it — from the very beginning?
  2. If the “little horn” was Antiochus, then in Daniel 7:11-12, what is the destiny of Antiochus?
  3. How does the dream/vision end in Daniel 7:13-14?
  4. Is there any identification of the “one like a human being?” Might it be an angel; a king “whose line would continue to rule forever?”
  5. To whom does Daniel turn for an explanation of his dream (Daniel 7:16)?
  6. In Daniel 7:27, is the prediction that “the people of the holy ones of the Most High — presumably the Jews — will presently have “kingship, dominion and grandeur?”
  7. As speculation, if the concluding refrain had to do with a positive outcome for the Jews why, then, was Daniel “very alarmed by my thoughts?”

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Perek Yomi materials originally produced by the USCJ and Dr. Morton K. Siegel.
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