6 passagesc. 2nd–1st century BCEGreek (Septuagint/Theodotion)unknown
Individual passages from Additions to Daniel, indexed for close reading, source verification, and myth source-checking.
King Cyrus loved to boast about the idol Bel, the great god of Babylon. Every single day the priests carried in twelve measures of fine flour, forty sheep, and six jars of wine, an...
Three young men of Judah stood inside Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, the flames roaring around them, and did the one thing no one expected. They prayed. Azariah opened his mouth in the ...
With Bel reduced to rubble, the king of Babylon had one argument left. In the same temple precinct lived an enormous serpent, a living dragon the city worshipped. Surely this one D...
While Azariah prayed inside the flames, the king's servants kept stoking the furnace as hard as they could. They fed it naphtha, pitch, dry tow, and brushwood until the fire leapt ...
Babylon was seething. Their god was rubble, their dragon was dead, their priests were gone, and the people blamed the king for siding with a Jew. Hand over Daniel, they demanded, o...
Safe in the cooled furnace, the three young men did not simply fall silent in relief. As if from one throat, they broke into a hymn of praise, and the song kept widening until it s...
