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According to the Maccabean Hypothesis, the author of the apocalyptic half of the book of Daniel, 7-12, was written during the Maccabean Revolt (c.165 BC) as a way to either encourage the Jews to keep up the fight or, in a more pacifist way, to simply resist the hellenisation being imposed on them. Some have claimed a certainty that, judging by the context of Daniel 7-12, the author was a traditionalist Jew, encouraging a strict adherence to the Torah lifestyle. My question is: can we be confident that the author was a traditionalist considering that he was writing a forgery?
