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Daniel 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Daniel. It tells of Daniel's vision of a two-horned ram destroyed by a one-horned goat, followed by the history of the "little horn", which is Daniel's code-word for the Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes.[1]
Although set during the reign or regency of King Belshazzar (who probably died in 539 BCE),[citation needed] the subject of the vision is Antiochus's oppression of the Jewish people during the second century BCE: he outlawed Jewish traditions such as circumcision, the Three Pilgrimage Festivals, dietary law (Kashrut), and Shabbat,[Notes 1] made ownership of a ''Sefer Torah'' a capital offense, and built an altar to Zeus in the Temple in Jerusalem (the "abomination of desolation").[2] His program sparked a popular uprising that led to the retaking of Jerusalem and the Temple by Judas Maccabeus (164 BCE), an event described in 1 Maccabees.[3]
- ^ Bandstra 2008, p. 452.
- ^ Bandstra 2008, p. 449.
- ^ Aune 2010, p. 15-19.
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