Daniel 8
Eighth chapter of the Book of Daniel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Daniel 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Daniel. It tells of Daniel's vision of a two-horned ram destroyed by a one-horned goat, followed by the history of the "little horn", which is Daniel's code-word for the Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes.[1]
Although set during the reign or regency of King Belshazzar (who probably died in 539 BCE), the subject of the vision is Antiochus' oppression of the Jewish people during the second century BCE: he outlawed Jewish customs such as circumcision, the Jewish festival calendar, dietary restrictions, and Sabbath observance,[Notes 1] made ownership of the Torah scroll a capital offense, and built an altar to Zeus in the Temple (the "abomination of desolation").[2] His program sparked a popular uprising which led to the retaking of Jerusalem and the Temple by Judas Maccabeus (164 BCE).[3]