Read Daniel 2.1-49 Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
This tale demonstrates God's superiority and Daniel's incomparable wisdom.
In verses 1-16 Nebuchadnezzar's impossible demand prepares the reader for
Daniel's role as a supremely competent interpreter in chs. 7-12.
Dream and omen interpretation were widely practiced in Babylonia.
In verse 1 the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign was 603 BCE.
Daniel appears before his training is complete (1.1, 5).
In verse 4 from 2.4b through 7.28 the text is written in Aramaic is an east Semitic language, originating in northern Aram (Syria), that was employed extensively throughout the Near East from the seventh and eighth century BCE until the emergence of Islam in the seventh century CE.
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