While one might disagree with the dating of the Song of Solomon and Daniel, James M. Hamilton Jr., notes the following parallels between Song 5 and Dan 2:
There are several features of Song
of Songs 5:10-16 that seem to have provided the terms and concepts later
employed by Daniel as he described the statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream
detailed in Daniel 2. If this is correct, Daniel would have been thoroughly
familiar with the Song of Sons, and then when Nebuchadnezzar’s dream was
revealed to him, the terms he found ready to hand for describing that statue
came from his awareness of this passage in Song 5. The Bride describes the
radiance of the King in Song 5:10. Daniel described the statue in
Nebuchadnezzar's dream as shimmering with 'exceeding brightness' (Dan. 2:31).
Song 5 is in Hebrew whereas Daniel 2:31 is in Aramaic, so the same terms are
not used. The concepts and symbolism, however, are synonymous. The statue was
of Nebuchadnezzar and the kingdoms that followed him (2:38-40). Here in Song 5
the Bride will describe the King, and just as Daniel does with the statute, she
peaks of his head, his arms, his body, legs, and bases (feet) (Song 5:11, 14,
15; cf. 2:32-33, 38-43).
Since Solomon lived and wrote in
the 900s B.C., with Daniel living later in the 500s B.C., in view of the fact
that Scriptural writings were likely memorized in ancient Israel, it seems that
what Solomon wrote influenced Daniel. Daniel being aware of and shaped by texts
like Song 5, when he beheld in vision (Dan. 2:19) the content of
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, his perception of that dream and its meaning were
informed by what he knew form biblical texts like song 5. The evidence
indicates that Daniel’s presentation of the contents of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream
was shaped in vocabulary and structure by Song 5. (James M. Hamilton Jr., Song
of Songs: A Biblical-Theological, Allegorical, Christological Interpretation
[Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, Inc., 2015], 105-6)
