In The Antiochene Crisis and Jubilee Theology in Danielâs Seventy Sevens, Dean R. Ulrich explores the joint interest of Daniel 9:24-27 in the Antiochene crisis of the second century B.C.E. and the jubilee theology conveyed by the prophecyâs structure. This study is necessary because previous scholarship, though recognizing the jubilee structure of the seventy sevens, has not sufficiently made the connection between jubilee and the six objectives of Daniel 9:24. Previous scholarship also has not adequately related the bookâs interest in Antiochus IV to the hope of jubilee, which involves the full inheritance that God has promised to his people but that they had lost because of their compromises with Antiochus IV.
Dean R. Ulrich has a Ph.D. from North-West University and Westminster Theological Seminary. He has taught at Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry and China Reformed Theological Seminary. Publications include articles on Joshua, Ruth, Daniel, and Zechariah.
Anyone interested in Danielâs infamous prophecy of the seventy sevens