Book of Daniel

I was never familiar with the Book of Daniel and reading the excerpts and explanation was very interesting. At first when I was reading the excerpts I couldn't follow along to well but when I read the explanation and became cognizant of the time period and succession of events, it all became clear. I also didn't expect to the Book of Daniel to be an apocalyptic book of the Hebrew Bible and when I read this it made sense because it did have many of the characterizations of an apocalypse. One of these characterizations could be  Antiochus Epiphanes the evil tyrant who symbolizes apocalypse and the onset of it due to his cruel treatment of the Jews. It was also very interesting to hear of Daniel's interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar dream, which symbolized the successive kingdoms to come. All in all a very though provoking and interesting read.