DANIEL 4:33

Q: I have read that the author of Daniel confused Nabonidus (father of Belshazzar) with

 Nebuchadnezzar.Is that true?

There is a Dead Sea Scroll fragment from about 50 BC which tells a similar story about Nabonidus. 

Conservative scholars say that it is more likely that the author of the fragment was the one confused. 

However, there are cuneiform records which mention Nabonidus being incapacitated for a while. Josh 

McDowell's Daniel in the Critics' Den deals with this and other historical issues in detail. There is of 

course also the possibility that God may have similarly afflicted both kings.