by Wendy Widder | Oct 28, 2012 | Daniel 2, Daniel 4
I apologize up front to my fellow fans of the Green & Gold: this blog post is not about the Packers. I shamelessly used that color combination to lure in readers. (Did it work?) However, shamelessness does not equal randomness. Read on… You might recall that...
by Wendy Widder | Sep 30, 2012 | Daniel 2, Daniel 4, The Book of Daniel
Nebuchadnezzar’s first disturbing dream came to him when he was a new king (chapter 2). He saw the “large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance” (2:31, NIV ) and, although the dream troubled him, things ended well for him. The interpretation bode...
by Wendy Widder | Feb 26, 2012 | Aramaic, Daniel 2, The Book of Daniel
At long last, we have reached the end of Daniel 2. It’s an interminably long chapter – an impression I had when I had to slog through it verse by verse in Aramaic for a PhD class. Blogging through it has done nothing to change that impression! Here’s how things end....
by Wendy Widder | Feb 23, 2012 | Babylon, Daniel 2, The Book of Daniel
It may take me longer to get through this dream than it took the Israelites to live through the Exile. My apologies to those of you sitting on the edge of your seat waiting to sort out the interpretations of Nebuchadnezzar’s statue dream. Daniel gives a pretty...
by Wendy Widder | Feb 16, 2012 | Babylon, Daniel 2, The Book of Daniel
I’ve had lots of dreams this week. This is what happens when you’re sick for five days and spend inordinate amounts of time napping. But none of my dreams merits a blog posting. So, let’s get to Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, finally. The dream, as recounted by Daniel,...
by Wendy Widder | Feb 5, 2012 | Daniel 2, The Book of Daniel
In case you haven’t been buying my argument that Nebuchadnezzar’s dream isn’t the most important part of chapter two, let me present my next piece of evidence: 2:24–30. Once God reveals the mystery to Daniel and Daniel spends four verses praising Him (vv. 20–23),...
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