(D2-9) Thomas Müntzer’s reception of the Book of Daniel. Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the four world empires in Daniel, chapter 2, with its doctrine of the translatio imperii, has become a key text of ...

He features in the Bible, specifically the Book of Daniel, chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4. In the first chapter , Nebuchadnezzar is a distant figure. The conquering king who seizes Jerusalem.