"Is the Book of Daniel a book of folk tales?"
It depends. Personally, I love the Book of Daniel!
Caveat: Most Christians don’t read their Bibles. Only a few read Revelation, and that list includes most Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and mainline churches.
I have Orthodox Jewish friends that have memorized vast sections of the Torah (Books of Moses), but they don’t read the Book of Daniel. Some Rabbis cite it, but most don’t read it. Why?
Rabbis realize there is a timeline built into Daniel 9:24-27 that starts during the second edict of Artaxerxes on Passover Saturday, April 2, 446 BCE (14 Nisan 3315) that ends exactly on April 8, 30 CE (17 Nisan 3790). Daniel’s count works perfectly. If you reject that Messiah, it’s troublesome, so the book must be overlooked.
I have friends that are eschatologists (study of the end of days), and they believe understanding Daniel is the foundation of their research. Revelation sounds like a folk tale without Daniel.
Only a few of us read English, Hebrew and Greek, and understand that the Septuagint (LXX) can be used a a tool to unite the whole Bible, if used properly.
Why do I love the Book of Daniel?
Daniel holds amazing prophecy and there is a chiastic structure linking Daniel with Revelation.
Daniel is the only book that accurately prophesied the kingdoms of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome rising and falling in order during the supposed quiet period between the prophets and the fall of the Second Temple. Daniel has two recitations in chapters 2 and 7 that paint wonderful pictures that can be applied to the pictorial language used in Revelation. It is the foundation for understanding Revelation better.
Daniel 7:7–8, 24–25 describes ten horns rising out of the fourth beast. Revelation 13:1–2, 12–13 describe the same ten horns.
If you look around you, you’ll notice ten pervasive tech giants that enforce our behavior and discipline us when we stray. Those are the ten horns of Daniel and Revelation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pt7hT0ZmVA&t=542sMany may dismiss Daniel as poetry, but its playing out as we speak. Things are getting more biblical every day.
Shalom!
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