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The present chapter surveys how chronological motifs in Daniel were inter-preted by pre-modern Arabic-speaking Christians. By reading the sacred scriptures from their own perspectives, the ancient texts were made rele-vant for new audiences long after the original public had vanished. The first example shows that the association of the fourth kingdom with Greece, which was a minority view in patristic times, became the standard inter-pretation in many Christian Arabic Bible translations under Islam. The essay also offers an example of how Islam was incorporated into sacred history in another Christian Arabic translation. The last example studies a debate between Jews, Christians, and Muslims over the correct understanding of “the seventy weeks of years” in Daniel 9, which demonstrates how easily the interpretation of sacred history became intertwined with reliable trans-mission of divine revelation as such.