Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Within the Book of Daniel, supernatural intervention rather than human agency provides deliverance from threats.
2. As unique as it seems, Daniel belongs to a long literary tradition that produced many similar apocalyptic books.
3. Apocalyptic works within the Hebrew Bible heavily influenced the authors of the New Testament.
4. The rise of apocalyptic literature closely correlates with the introduction of Persian culture into the Near East during the sixth and fifth centuries BCE.
5. Concepts of an afterlife, so prominent in apocalyptic works, appear frequently elsewhere in the biblical canon.


1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. FALSE

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