II and Euthydemus I
Daniel 7 with four ferocious beasts.5 In both chapters the series is inherently anti-imperial as it envisions the end of the final
only in the Greek or Macedonian empire founded by Alexander the the four principal kingdoms into which the heritage of Alexander was.
The 'four kingdoms' of Daniel 2 and 7 are I believe
final kingdom waged war with Islam and defeated it.4 In another Syriac tract tristic commentaries in Greek and Latin
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv1sr6k2b.4
All Greek texts are from J. Geffcken Die. Oracula Sibyllina (Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs
egetical traditions rooted in Greek and Syriac biblical interpretation. of Persia (4) the kingdom of the Greeks.17 This sequence
Babylonian Empire; “dark” to Media; “great” refers to the Greek Empire; and. “descended” to “the fourth empire wicked Rome.”2 In other midrashic litera-.
Four Kingdoms Patterns in the Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls clues and external comparisons is: Babylon-Persia Greece