Yet it is probable that the name of the hero of the Book of Daniel was chosen to bring to mind the Daniel spoken of in the Book of Ezekiel.
A Jewish oracle‑monger of the same name may or may not have lived in Babylon at the time of King Nebuchadnezzar. was a priest by the name of Daniel ( Nehemiah 10:6). For instance, a signer of Nehemiah’s covenant in 444 B.C.E. Persons named Daniel (“God has judged”) are mentioned in Babylonian records and in the Bible elsewhere. Read the Book of Daniel in Hebrew and English on Sefaria. The hero of the Book of Daniel (in the Ketuvim section of the Bible) is one of the Jews exiled in Babylonia, a soothsayer at the Babylonian court under Nebuchadnezzar (who died in 562 B.C.E.) and Belshazzar (who died in 539 B.C.E.), and at the Median and Persian courts in Babylon under “Darius the Mede” and Cyrus (who died in 529 B.C.E.). My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help Donate
