page_title: Book of Daniel
section_title: Additions to Daniel (Greek text tradition)
hierarchical_section_title: Book of Daniel / Content / Additions to Daniel (Greek text tradition)
caption_attribution_description: Copy of a painting by Guido Reni in the National Gallery, London
context_page_description: The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BCE biblical apocalypse combining a prophecy of history with an eschatology cosmic in scope and political in focus. In more mundane language, it is "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon," its message being that just as the God of Israel saved Daniel and his friends from their enemies, so he would save all of Israel in their present oppression.
  In the Hebrew Bible, it is found in the Ketuvim, while in Christian Bibles it is grouped with the Major Prophets. The book divides into two parts, a set of six court tales in chapters 1–6 written mostly in Aramaic, followed by four apocalyptic visions in chapters 7–12, written mostly in Hebrew. The deuterocanon contains three additional stories: the Song of the Three Holy Children, Susanna, and Bel and the Dragon.
  The book's influence has resonated through later ages, from the Dead Sea Scrolls community and the authors of the gospels and Revelation, to various movements from the 2nd century to the Protestant Reformation and modern millennialist movements—on which it continues to have a profound influence.
context_section_description: The Greek text of Daniel is considerably longer than the Hebrew, due to three additional stories: they remain in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles but were rejected by the Protestant movement in the 16th century on the basis that they were absent from Jewish Bibles.
  The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, placed after Daniel 3:23;
  The story of Susanna and the Elders, placed before chapter 1 in some Greek versions and after chapter 12 in others;
  The story of Bel and the Dragon, placed at the end of the book.
caption: Susanna and the Elders by Guido Reni (1820–1825)
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