The Book of Daniel is a biblical apocalypse set in the 6th century BC and considered by mainstream Bible scholars to have been written in the 2nd century BC. It is ostensibly a narrative detailing the
Papyrus 967, a 3rd-century-AD manuscript of a Greek translation of Daniel
Nebuchadnezzar's dream: the composite statue (France, 15th century)
Nebuchadnezzar by William Blake (between c. 1795 and 1805)
Daniel's Answer to the King by Briton Rivière (1892)
The narrative of Bel and the Dragon is incorporated as chapter 14 of the extended Book of Daniel. The original Septuagint text in Greek survives in a single manuscript, Codex Chisianus, while the stan
Book of Daniel
…Hebrew; the Septuagint contains three additional sections in Koine Greek: the Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon. Daniel and other Jewish apocalyptic literature from the period of antiquity (outside of John's Revelation) are all pseudonymous. The book's themes…
Stephan Kessler's Daniel and King Cyrus in Bel's Temple
Daniel, Bel and the Dragon (France, 15th century)