Halfway through this book it is in Aramaic, and therefore could no more be written by a contemporary of Nebuchadnezzar than a book that changes from Latin to Italian be written by Cæsar. In fact, it was written at least four centuries after the Jews were in exile and as such it is history masquerading as prophecy, and poor history at that. i.1: Already the first verse is historically inaccurate as …showed first 75 words of 824 total…

…showed last 75 words of 824 total…appears to be an industrialist or financier. xii.2: This is one of the first mentions in the Bible of an afterlife, or a heaven and hell. xii.8: Daniel is made to ask for information he can understand but is told basically to forget about it. Again this shows god to be anti-knowledge and besides, would a god who cared for his creation not at least tried to explain things so that it could be understood?