Finally, after a
multitude of other concessions, Prof. Sayce allowed that the book
of Jonah, so far from being the work of the prophet himself, can
not have been written until the Assyrian Empire was a thing of the
past; that the book of Daniel contains serious mistakes; that the
so-called historical chapters of that book so conflict with the
monuments that the author can not have been a contemporary of
Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus; that "the story of Belshazzar's fall is
not historical"; that the Belshazzar referred to in it as king,
and as the son of Nehuchadnezzar, was not the son of
Nebuchadnezzar, and was never king; that "King Darius the Mede,"
who plays so great a part in the story, never existed; that the
book associates persons and events really many years apart, and
that it must have been written at a period far later than the time
assigned in it for its own origin.
As to the book of Ezra, he tells us that we are confronted by a
chronological inconsistency which no amount of ingenuity can
explain away.
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