Today in our journey through the 66 books of the Bible we come to the book of Daniel. Author The figure of Daniel is known from the Aqhat Epic (c. 1350 BCE) found at Ugarit in 1930/31. Daniel is also mentioned in Ezekiel 14:14 and 28:3. In Ezekiel 14:14 Daniel is mentioned alongside Noah and Job, two ancient non-Israelite heroes. This wise and righteous hero of the ancient past becomes in the book of Daniel a new model of Jewish faithfulness to God. As the story unfolds, we see Daniel as a member of the Jewish exile community in Babylonia. He eventually rises to become an important Jewish figure in the Babylonian court. Traditionally, the authorship of the book of Daniel was attributed to Daniel himself. However, most modern scholars think that this book was written by some anonymous Jew of a later period, using the period of the exile as a setting to address the challenging issues of Jews living under foreign rule—something the Jewish people had to cont...