Daniel (image)

Hand colored stencil print on washi by Sadao Watanabe (1965).

Image taken with permission from the SadaoHanga Catalogue where you can find many more images and information about Sadao Watanabe.

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Daniel

The term that is transliterated as “Daniel” in English is translated in American Sign Language with the sign for the letter D and for “lion,” referring to the story in Daniel 6. (Source: RuthAnna Spooner, Ron Lawer)


“Daniel” in American Sign Language, source: Deaf Harbor

In Swiss-German Sign Language it is translated with the sign for “prayer” that illustrates Daniel’s close relationship with God.


“Daniel” in Swiss-German Sign Language, source: DSGS-Lexikon biblischer Begriffe , © CGG Schweiz

Following is a Russian Orthodox icon of Daniel from the 18th century (found in the Transfiguration Church, Kizhi Monastery, Karelia, Russia).

 
Orthodox Icons are not drawings or creations of imagination. They are in fact writings of things not of this world. Icons can represent our Lord Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the Saints. They can also represent the Holy Trinity, Angels, the Heavenly hosts, and even events. Orthodox icons, unlike Western pictures, change the perspective and form of the image so that it is not naturalistic. This is done so that we can look beyond appearances of the world, and instead look to the spiritual truth of the holy person or event. (Source )

Translation commentary on Bel and the Dragon 1:32

If integrated into the book of Daniel: 14.32.

Every day they had been given two human bodies and two sheep: The Greek is reasonably, if not absolutely, clear that the human bodies were dead, and they could have been male or female, adults or children. It is not said whether the sheep are alive or dead when they are fed to the lions.

But these were not given to them now, so that they might devour Daniel: Now presumably refers to the whole six-day period mentioned in verse 31, not just the day when Daniel is thrown in. So Good News Translation has “But they were given nothing to eat during these six days, in order to make sure that Daniel would be eaten,” or we may use the active voice; for example, “But the Babylonians gave the lions nothing to eat for those six days to ensure that they would eat Daniel.”

Contemporary English Version combines verses 31-32 as follows:

• The Babylonians kept seven lions in a large pit and fed them two people and two sheep each day. Daniel was thrown into this pit, and for the next six days the lions were given no other food. The Babylonians wanted to make sure that the lions would eat Daniel.

An alternative model that combines these two verses is:

• They took Daniel to a deep pit, where seven lions were kept, seven lions that were regularly fed two human bodies and two sheep every day. They threw Daniel to the lions, and to make sure that they ate him, did not feed them for the next six days.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Shorter Books of the Deuterocanon. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2006. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.