Discovery BoxDaniel 4:5 
Context4:5 I saw a dream that 1 frightened me badly. The things I imagined while lying on my bed – these visions of my mind – were terrifying me.
Daniel 8:1
ContextDaniel Has a Vision of a Goat and a Ram
8:1 2 In the third year 3 of King Belshazzar’s reign, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that had appeared to me previously. 4
1 tn Aram “and it.”
2 sn Dan 8:1 marks the switch from Aramaic (= 2:4b-7:28) back to Hebrew as the language in which the book is written in its present form. The remainder of the book from this point on (8:1-12:13) is in Hebrew. The bilingual nature of the book has been variously explained, but it most likely has to do with the book’s transmission history.
3 sn The third year of King Belshazzar’s reign would have been ca. 551
4 tn Heb “in the beginning.” This refers to the vision described in chapter seven.
