Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Christians are being killed in record numbers. If you think Muslims want to dominate the Middle East only, you are dangerously mistaken. God always keeps His promises, even the unpleasant ones. After the Babylonian Empire, Media-Persia took over. God may have removed the Jewish people from their land, but He faithfully brought them back.
Learn how He did it and who He used. Skip to content. Get The App. My Account. And Darius, the Mede, took the kingdom, being about threescore and two [62] years old.
Whitcomb, Jr. Flavius Josephus, Antiquities , Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. If he or another scholar with the ability to contribute these evidences on Wikipedia were to do so, it could help its readers see a more balanced perspective on the reliability of the book of Daniel itself.
Tilley said:. September 16, at am. I agree. If Dr. Anderson could edit and update the negative bias towards the historicity of Daniel which exists on Wikipedia this would be beneficial for many. Thank you for your fine scholarship. Yes, it would be great if we could change what is on Wikipedia, since that is where search engines usually send people. I have tried to do this, and so has at least one other scholar I know. Unfortunately, the Wikipedia moderators are virulently anti-Christian, and will not allow affirmations of the historicity of Darius the Mede and the book of Daniel to stand.
They act like the only real scholars are the unbelieving critics, and everything that evangelical scholars have written on the book of Daniel should be dismissed. The truth is, they know that if rebuttals are given to the critical view, a lot of people will recognize the problems with it and will believe the Bible.
Baekelandt said:. February 7, at pm. Cyaxares II — Well done Mr. Just ask Kepler, Newton, Faraday and Maxwell. Also, personally knowing the man who was speaking about Darius in Daniel is an advantage.
I recognized his voice as the sheep know the voice of the shepherd. Oddly enough, John and Daniel both reacted the same way. They were so terrified, they fell down as if dead. Imagine how an enemy would feel in that situation! Say, for instance, those who try to convince a dying world that the word of God is a bunch of rubbish.
About what though? How could a vague assertion about an imaginary king fool anyone about anything? March 23, at pm. Thank you for your astute contributions….
But maybe I will be surprised when I get to heaven and will see Darius the Mede there! March 25, at pm. March 27, at pm. And who would King Xerxes be to King Darius? Were they related? Medes and Persians are mentioned quite a bit in the book of Esther.
And do you know about the history of King Xerxes and Esther or even what happened to former Queen Vashti? All these ancient people are so fascinating to me. If you could enlighten me on any of these subjects it would be worth a great study and I would be thankful again….
If you have time you are welcome to check out my Blog as well. March 30, at pm. Thanks for your interest! It would be wonderful to have the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia, as they contained so much valuable and detailed historical information. Unfortunately, it appears that they were only written on papyrus scrolls cf.
Ezra , which typically rot away over time. The relationship of Xerxes to Darius the Mede is interesting. When Darius the Mede died, his realm passed to Cyrus the Persian, who had married his daughter. These names were chosen in order to connect the new dynasty with the last two reigning kings who had preceded Cyrus cf.
Dan Paul Held said:. May 15, at pm. In doing a brief review of his personage, I have found both your coverage and that of Stephen Miller in in his commentary pp useful. If I am correct, I understand that the stronger position is that of Darius being the same personage as Cyrus in Daniel.
For example, in Ez King Darius searched the records and found the scroll from King Cyrus; appearing to clearly substantiate that the Darius is different than Cyrus at least in Ezra. Can you suggest a solution to the identity of the similarly named personages in Ezra when compared to the similary named personages Daniel? This is something that all evangelical scholars agree upon, regardless of their view of Darius the Mede. He is to be identified with Darius I, the son of Hystaspes.
Thus, I do not adopt the view that Cyrus used the name Darius, although this view has more points in its favor than the view that Darius the Mede is Gubaru. Lloyd's of Rochester said:. December 15, at am. Sounds good to me, but then which Darius is referred to in Haggai and Zechariah?
Ah, thank you very much. I would not have been able to find an easy answer to that on my own. I will make corrections on my guide. December 15, at pm. You are doing what God made you to do, and doing it well. May 29, at pm. Anderson for your clarification. How could they be the same when in and there was a distinguishment? Jon Gleason said:. November 1, at pm. Anderson, I just wanted to express my appreciation for your excellent work on this topic and your generosity in making your book available on-line.
I particularly appreciate your strongly Biblical approach — the best scholarship in the world will drift if not anchored in Biblical truth. Dan Coy said:. January 22, at am.
January 23, at am. I do reference Daniel in the book, just not in this blog post. January 25, at pm. Anderson, Would you be able to comment on two questions that I have surrounding Zerubbabel from Ezra and Haggai? One is the genealogical question and the other is the issue with Sheshbazzar that I would like to run past you, your time permitting. February 5, at pm. Sure, go ahead and ask. My view is that Sheshbazzar was a Persian official, not a Hebrew governor or Zerubbabel , although I have not done thorough research on the issue.
February 6, at pm. May I share what Valerius Coucke wrote on this, as taken from p. Zerubbabel and Sheshbazzar are the same person. This opinion is contrary to the text of the Bible Ezra chs. Not only were Zerubbabel and Sheshbazzar contemporary, but they were the same person. Sheshbazzar is also a prince of Judah Ezra Sheshbazzar is the chief of the immigrants Ezra ff.
Dale Little said:. March 14, at pm. Thank you so much. My ministry has been mainly in prisons, homeless centers, and sometimes inner city streets, so I have not had opportunity to teach through the Book of Daniel but on a couple of occasions over the years. At the age of 70 God called me to work on starting a church in a Gypsy village in Romania. I am now 72 with only a little formal Bible education, but I have been reading and studying for 60 years now.
My question is, do you think it possible that Cyrus could have ruled the Empire from the start and Darius was given rule as King only of what was the old Babylonian Empire or province? I appreciate the hard work you have put into this. Hi Dale! That is one of the common views, but I do not believe it fits the biblical description of Darius the Mede. Notably, the decree made by Darius in Daniel that no one could make a petition to any god or man but himself for thirty days is a decree that could only be issued by the highest authority in the realm.
Persian kings held absolute power, and would not tolerate an attempt to honor a subordinate above themselves. Further, it is stated three times in Daniel 6 that the decree issued by Darius could not be altered Dan , 12, 15 , which shows that it was issued by the highest regent in the kingdom, whom none could overrule. April 23, at am. Thank you sir. The more I studied it after asking my question, the more I have come to agree with your conclusion.
It seems to answer all the questions. Abel Torres said:. April 10, at am. It is true, Dan 8: 3 speaks of 2 horns kings or kingdoms in the ram and not 1; not a Persian empire, but a Medo-Persian empire; not King Cyrus with only a satrap, but King Cyrus and one more king Ciaxares II. Get published in Spanish? Thank you very much. Hola Abel, gracias por compartir sus comentarios sobre esta tema. June 20, at pm. Steven, I read with great interest your doctoral thesis on Darius the Mede.
I am a retired pastor and a continuing student of the Word, as I continue to teach and preach. My wife and I have been long-time friends of DTS for many years. Ever since my seminary days, I have not been happy with most stances on the identity of Darius the Mede specifically, and the handling of the Medo-Persian history in general. About three years ago, that time came, as I finally carved out the time to make an exhaustive study, as I was preparing to teach on some of the post-exilic books and needed to try to resolve in my own mind the Medo-Pesian history and chronology.
At that time I wrote three monographs to use as an introduction to teaching that series. Needless to say, I was thrilled to find a confirmation of my work. However, my scope was a bit broader than yours, as I was including Ahasuerus into the mix or should I say, the Ahasueruses. Charles C. Torrey of Yale University. I think he was either the brother of R. Torrey, or his first cousin. He agreed with your identification of Darius the Mede. But what made it fascinating?
I noticed you did not include his monograph in your Bibliography. His route to determining who Darius the Mede was a bit different than yours, although in most points the two of you used the same points. The places where he differed were very good points and could be used to fortify some of your points. But what made his paper so fascinating was his identification of Ahaseurus.
If you have not seen this paper, I think it would be worth your while to look at it, and then comment back to me what you think. I know the identification of Ahaseurus was not in the scope of your thesis, but it still may be of interest to you. Steven, I earlier stated that Dr. Charles Torrey agreed with your conclusion on the identity of Darius the Mede, but upon further review, I found I was mistaken — Dr.
I agree with your analysis, but find parts of Dr. Torreys work very interesting. Thanks, Tom Anderson. Hi Tom, thanks for sharing about your work on Darius the Mede! I always appreciate feedback and pointers about other sources. December 12, at pm. Any chance you have an updated family tree you could attach to this article?
December 13, at am. Thank you very much! Trying to understand and keep track of the players at this time in history is worse than a long running soap opera — at least this is worth trying to grasp! I would not call it mere opinion to say that the timing of your research is clearly divinely inspired. I am not yet familiar with specific publications you have inspired, but have probably run across some of it unawares and expect will see more.
I hope some of your followers are better equipped than I and are willing and able to join in the good fight! However, correcting the errors in the Wikipedia entries is not easy, and I will explain why. The basic idea of Wikipedia an on-line encyclopedia into which anyone can make an entry, but with moderators to enforce necessary academic rules came from a graduate of my Alma Mater, Reed College, who majored in philosophy.
His name is Larry Sanger. In order to get his ideas into production, he joined up with someone named James nickname Jimbo Wales. Jimbo Wales apparently had the finances to get the project going. He got those finances from a career in pornography. Sanger eventually had a fallout with Wales, and so the pornographer became and still is the CEO of Wikipedia.
This means that the basic culture of the organization is atheist; after all, if the Bible is true, atheists are in big trouble, and so it is necessary for those who want to maintain their atheism and their licentious lifestyle to make any kind of argument they can to discredit the Bible. The Book of Daniel gives more information concerning the personal background of Darius the Mede than of Belshazzar or even of Nebuchadnezzar; for he is the only monarch in the book whose age, parentage, and nationality are recorded.
Although he was a subordinate ruler like Belshazzar, it is evident that he ruled Babylonia with far greater zeal and efficiency than did his profligate predecessor; and even more important, he honored the God of Daniel See Book of Daniel. Bibliography R. Young, The Prophecy of Daniel ; J. Whitcomb, Jr. Wiseman, et al.
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