The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study

The king expects screams from the furnace; instead, he hears praise. In the Song of the Three Holy Children, the fire becomes the setting for a hymn that calls the whole creation to bless God.

William Heaford Daubney’s early twentieth-century study examines three additions to the Greek Book of Daniel: the song from the furnace, the history of Susanna, and the story of Bel and the Dragon. With close attention to their wording, titles, manuscript traditions, and place in the biblical text, Daubney asks how these passages came to be treated as marginal—and what their connection to Daniel’s story might mean. The questions reach beyond textual arrangement to the additions’ place in Jewish history and religious thought. Are these narratives merely late attachments, or do they deserve a more integral place in the book of Daniel?

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