Daniel is unique among the prophets because he is not actually a prophet. The book of Daniel is a difficult book to categorize because Daniel is not a prophet, in that he did not preach to anyone, yet he received a great deal of prophetic dreams and visions from God that told of future events. As a matter of fact, the Hebrew Old Testament does not include Daniel in the prophets, but places it with the “Writings” (these were the history books and the poetry books) because it is actually more of a narrative rather than a collection of messages like the other Old Testament prophet books.

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