STUDIES IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL: A DISCUSSION OF THE HISTORICAL QUESTIONS

Occasionally God gives to His Church a man of unusual gifts, deep piety, and true insight. Such a man was the late Robert Dick Wilson (1856-1930). Dr. Wilson lived at a time when the Old Testament and especially the book of Daniel was being subjected to some of the severest attacks and criticisms that it had ever received. He himself was a devout Christian and grieved over these attacks. He also had an insight into their nature and into the need for refuting them. And he had the God-given ability for standing up to the challenge which these attacks constituted, accepting it and seeking to give an answer. In his quest to determine the accuracy of the original manuscripts, Wilson learned 45 languages, including Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, as well as all the languages into which the Scriptures had been translated up to 600 AD. He was an American linguist and Presbyterian scholar who devoted his life to prove the reliability of the Hebrew Bible. He taught at Princeton and later in Westminster Theological Seminary. Read more