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This primary source lesson provides...

Background...

Background on the Book of Daniel and reasons why some scholars believe it was written during the time of the events (600s or 500s BC) or hundreds of years later (100s BC).

Excerpts...

Excerpts from various chapters in the Book of Daniel focused on dreams and the interpretations of those dreams as they relate to historical events in Mesopotamia.

Summarizing questions and text-dependent questions...

Students are tasked with summarizing the dreams and interpretations as well as thinking about the historical dating of the Book of Daniel.