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The Authenticity of the Book of Daniel: A Survey of the Evidence

8 Comments / Authenticity of Daniel, Canonicity, Messianic Prophecy, Non-Messianic Prophecy, Predictive Prophecy, Pseudepigrapha / jmclatchie

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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The Argument From Prophecy and Bayes Theorem (Part 2): Failed Biblical Prophecy?

2 Comments / Non-Messianic Prophecy, Philosophy, Probability Theory / jmclatchie

Fulfilled prophecy carries much more epistemic significance than apparently unfulfilled prophecy, because of the principle of epistemic asymmetry

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The Argument From Prophecy and Bayes Theorem (Part 1): How to Express the Evidence of Prophetic Fulfillment

2 Comments / Non-Messianic Prophecy, Probability Theory / jmclatchie

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.

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JONATHAN MCLATCHIE

Non-Messianic Prophecy

The Authenticity of the Book of Daniel: A Survey of the Evidence

The Argument From Prophecy and Bayes Theorem (Part 2): Failed Biblical Prophecy?

The Argument From Prophecy and Bayes Theorem (Part 1): How to Express the Evidence of Prophetic Fulfillment

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