- Is Mikhael (described as the great prince) considered the “angel” Mikhael and is he the “patron angel” of “your people?”
- What is meant by the phrase “all who are found inscribed in the book?”
- Does Daniel 12:2 imply (or explicate) that the dead will come to life — and that many of those will find the return not “exciting?”
- Who are “the knowledgeable” in Daniel 12:3?
- The “Ever Living One” is clearly Divinity; but, who or what is the man clothed in linen?
- Does the book end with a positive or a negative indication for the Jews; with a negative or positive future for Daniel?
- How would you read the conclusion — as offering encouragement to the reader at the time when it was composed — or otherwise? As previously noted: the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, self-proclaimed “The Great” (dubbed Epimanes, the great madman, the Tyrant who led to the Maccabean revolt and Hanukkah) — or, as represented, the multi-century earlier Babylonian exile?
