Daniel or someone else

I have a fondness for the narrative part of this (the story of Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar, the king's madness, the lion's den, Shadrach, Meschach, and Abednego in the pit of fire, etc.), not only because we did a musical of it in third grade (the kid playing Nebuchadnezzaar yelled so much he got a nodule on his vocal chord) but also because it's just a fine, uplifting tale of Jews landing on their feet and thriving in exile, and that's a story a world in refugee crisis can appreciate too I hope? Daniel's actual prophecies don't have the zazz of some of his compeers, I think--the stuff about three big horns fall out of the goat's head and one little horn grows and that horn is the king and that horn takes over the kingdom shoots past satisfyingly weird to just kind of goofy, sorry--though he is also (relatively) less bloodthirsty than Isaiah/Jeremiah/Ezekiel, which makes me like him too. The cheerful, two-thumbs-up fail-upwarder of the prophets.… (lisätietoja)