Original sentence: The traditionalist view holds that the work was written by a prophet named Daniel who lived during the sixth century BC, whereas many Biblical scholars maintain that the book was written or redacted in the mid-second century BC and that most of the predictions of the book refer to events that had already occurred (ex eventu)
Edited sentence: The traditionalist view holds that the work was written by a prophet named Daniel who lived during the sixth century BC, whereas most Biblical scholars maintain that the book was written or redacted in the mid-second century BC and that most of the predictions of the book refer to events that had already occurred (ex eventu)