The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Their neighbor Ardavan descended from Persian settlers and kept fragments of the Open Hand archive. He supplied court vocabulary and old names when Mattithiah set tales in Babylonian and Persian times.”
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Historically anchoredThe setting or public event is documented; dialogue, motives, and recurring characters are invented.
Daniel's final apocalyptic form is commonly associated with the persecution under Antiochus IV and the Maccabean crisis.
Mattithiah and his writing circle are fictional composites, not identified historical authors of Daniel.