The text contains multiple concrete features that find striking correspondence in the events surrounding the fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Moreover, Jesus does not make a vague, general, prophecy about an event to happen in the undated future, but he puts a specific time limit on it – it was to happen before his generation passed away.
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The book of Daniel contains many detailed and specific predictive prophecies concerning the course of world history, and this has prompted many higher critical scholars to date Daniel to the second century B.C., during the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes.
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Fulfilled prophecy carries much more epistemic significance than apparently unfulfilled prophecy, because of the principle of epistemic asymmetry
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The probability of the evidence given your hypothesis does not need to be high for your data to carry evidential value. Rather, it only needs to be higher on the assumption that your hypothesis is correct than on the assumption that it is false.