Halfway through this book it is in Aramaic, and therefore could no more be written by a contemporary of Nebuchadnezzar than a book that changes from Latin to Italian be written by Cæsar. In fact, it was written at least four centuries after the Jews were in exile and as such it is history masquerading as prophecy, and poor history at that.
i.1: Already the first verse is historically inaccurate as it was his son who was king. …
