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Chapter 11, the report of the vision: The angel continues: there will be four kings of Persia, and the last will make war on Greece. After him will come a great king, but that king's empire will be broken up. There will be wars and marriages between the kings of the South and the North (described in great detail), and the king of the North will desecrate the Temple and set up "[[Abomination of desolation|the abomination that causes desolation]]". At the end-time there will be a war between the king of the South and the king of the North, and the king of the North will meet his end "between the sea and the Holy Mountain".
Chapter 12, the epilogue: At the end-time, "Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise." There will be great distress, but those whose names are written will be saved, the dead will awaken to everlasting shame or life. Daniel asks how long it will be before these things are fulfilled and is told, “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290
==Composition==
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* Further revision and the addition of chapters 8–12.
Daniel is episodic rather than linear: it has no plot as such. It does, however, have a structure. Chapters
Within the three chapters of Daniel 10–12, Daniel 10 serves as prologue, chapter 11 as the report of the angelic vision, and chapter 12 as the epilogue.{{sfn|Seow|2003|p=153}} [[Philip R. Davies|P. R. Davies]] suggests that the text is "poor Hebrew, and may represent a rather poor translation from an [[Aramaic]] original".<ref>Davies, P. R., ''Daniel'' in Barton, J. and Muddiman, J. (2001), [https://b-ok.org/dl/946961/8f5f43 The Oxford Bible Commentary], p. 568</ref> The unit begins with a third-person introduction (10:1), then switches to Daniel speaking in his own voice as one of the two primary characters, his angelic partner being the second–this is probably the [[angel Gabriel]], although he is never identified.{{sfn|Hill|2008|p=176}} Then follows Daniel 11, the "Book of Truth": much of the history it recounts is accurate down to the two successive Syrian invasions of Egypt in 170 and 168 BCE, but there was no third war between Egypt and Syria, and Antiochus did not die in Palestine.{{sfn|Seow|2003|p=166}} The failure of prophecy helps pinpoint the date of composition: the author knows of the desecration of the Temple in December 167, but not of its re-dedication or of the death of Antiochus, both in late 164;{{sfn|Seow|2003|p=166}} the countdown of days remaining to the end-time in Daniel 12:11–12 differs from that in [[Daniel 8]], and it was most likely added after the original prediction failed to come to pass.{{sfn|Levine|2010|p=1257 fn.}}
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