Atheist gadfly Richard Carrier takes on the Book of Daniel, often considered "the best" Biblical book, due to its striking prophecies about Jesus and the Roman destruction of the Temple. Or maybe not. Carrier believes Daniel is a forgery. These days, I tend to be skeptical to almost everything, but even I was surprised that Daniel was *this* bad.
In particular, note the section on Josephus. Note also Carrier´s exegesis of the weird math, pointing out (among other things) that the years of the prophecy are overlapping?! Und so weiter.
Politically, Carrier is a left-liberal disaster area, but he´s strong on matters like this one.
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