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This commentary on the Biblical Book of Daniel answers crucial
questions about the significance of his prophecy, and of the
culture he lived among. Not content with simply interpreting the
prophecy of Daniel, Robert Dick Wilson delves into the social,
historical and cultural aspects of ancient Babylonia. The
significance of Nebuchadnezzar II in the story of Daniel, how his
dreams were interpreted to become some of the most significant
aspects of Old Testament prophecy, is discussed. Other chapters
focus on the Chaldeans and their society, the opposition that
Babylon had to Israel - Daniel himself being a captive Hebrew man,
taken from his homeland as a child - and the possibility that
Nebuchadnezzar was mentally ill. The allusions to the events at the
King's court in the Book of Daniel are examined in detail, with
conclusions drawn to the most reasonable extent possible.
A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament By ROBERT DICK
WILSON. PREFACE: IT IS the purpose of the present volume to show
that intelligent Christians have a reasonable ground, for
concluding that the text of the Old Testament which we have is
substantially correct, and that, In its true and obvious meaning,
it has a right to be considered a part of the infallible rule of
faith and practice that we have in the Holy Scrip tures. I have not
gone into a discussion of miracles and prophecy, either as to their
possibility or as to their actuality. All believers in the
incarnation and the resurrection must accept this possibility and
this ac tuality. I seek rather to show that, so far as anyone knows
j the Old Testament can be and is just what the authors claimed it
to be, and what the Christ and the New Testament writers thought it
to be. The theory of kenasis so far as it affects the Lords
knowledge of the Old Testament, is, I hope, shown to be
unnecessary, because the facts and the evidence bear ing upon the
Old Testament support the testimony of Jesus. I have not said much
about the chronology and the geography of the Old Testament,
because in neither of these two departments of history are the
facts and the evidence sufficiently well established to give us re-
5 liable testimony upon the details of the Biblical rec ords as
they bear upon these two important subjects. As to the first
chapters of Genesis, the extra-Biblical sources now known show that
before the time of Abraham the minds of men were much occupied with
the origin of the universe and also, that the account in Genesis is
the only one which is clearly monotheistic, and that it is
incomparably superior in rationality tothe ten or more accounts
from Egypt and Babylonia. The Babylonian account of the flood
confirms the probability that the Biblical records de scribe a real
historical occurrence and, as Professor Sayce said long ago, shows
by its similar combination of the so-called J and P documents of
the Pentateuch that the radical hypothesis of the post-captivity
com position of the Biblical record of the deluge is abso lutely
contrary to the facts. The time, the extent, and many of the
circumstances of the flood are still debatable but that there was a
flood before the time of Abraham and that the Genesis account of it
is cor rect is abundantly supported in substance by the evi dence
of the eleventh tablet of the Babylonian record The method followed
may be called the evidential method because I have sought to follow
the Laws of Evidence as applied to documents admitted in our courts
of law. I presume that the prinia facie evi dence of the documents
of the Old Testament is to be received as true until it shall have
been proved false. I hold, further, that the evidence of
manuscripts and 6 versions and of the Egyptian, Babylonian and
other documents outside the Bible confirms the pnma facie evidence
of the Biblical documents in general both as to text and meaning
and that this text and meaning cannot be corrected or changed
simply in order to be brought into harmony with the opinions of men
of our generation. To demand that we should verify every statement
of any ancient document or modern for that matter before we can
reasonably believe it, is demanding the impossible...
This commentary on the Biblical Book of Daniel answers crucial
questions about the significance of his prophecy, and of the
culture he lived among. Not content with simply interpreting the
prophecy of Daniel, Robert Dick Wilson delves into the social,
historical and cultural aspects of ancient Babylonia. The
significance of Nebuchadnezzar II in the story of Daniel, how his
dreams were interpreted to become some of the most significant
aspects of Old Testament prophecy, is discussed. Other chapters
focus on the Chaldeans and their society, the opposition that
Babylon had to Israel - Daniel himself being a captive Hebrew man,
taken from his homeland as a child - and the possibility that
Nebuchadnezzar was mentally ill. The allusions to the events at the
King's court in the Book of Daniel are examined in detail, with
conclusions drawn to the most reasonable extent possible.
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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