Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now we're going through the entire Bible to understand it as one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Daniel.

I'm telling you my friends, Daniel is so dang good, then it's a trap right there in the

middle of the Bible, because let's say you're making a podcast and you're trying to have

a bunch of conversations about the Bible and you got to do one every day.

You don't have a ton of time to linger on each book and read it and read it again and

read it again, but Daniel is so interesting and it has such big implications and the narrative

is so good that it's really hard to hustle past it.

Maybe I want to open here with a sales pitch for why I think it's so interesting and so

cool.

It defies categorization, it's half narrative and it's half prophecy and the two mingle

together in interesting ways, though basically the first half is the narrative stuff and

the second half is the prophecy stuff.

As if that weren't enough, half of it's not written in Hebrew, the rest of everything

we've looked at almost entirely is in Hebrew, but Daniel only has chapter one being in

Hebrew and then chapters eight through twelve being in Hebrew, but in the middle there's

giant chunk of Aramaic, which by the time we get to Jesus, that was the language that the Jews

were speaking, walking around in those scenes in the New Testament, but back here Aramaic hadn't

totally caught on everywhere yet.

In fact, it was during the life of Daniel that Aramaic went from being a language that saw

some use because lots of different people could use it even fumblingly to communicate under

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