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 1:42

If integrated into the book of Daniel: 14.42.

He pulled Daniel out: Contemporary English Version has “The king had Daniel pulled up out of the pit.” This is more likely than the renderings in Revised Standard Version and Good News Translation. The king would have had his servants pull Daniel out. Another way to say this is “the king had his servants pull Daniel up out of the pit.”

Threw into the den the men who had attempted his destruction may also be rendered “had those who had tried to kill Daniel thrown into it [the pit]” (Good News Translation) or even “had his servants throw those men who had tried to kill Daniel into the pit.”

They were devoured immediately before his eyes: The Greek does not make clear who watches the lions devour the men, but we would assume that the king is meant rather than Daniel. Good News Translation makes this specific (also Contemporary English Version with “he [the king] watched the lions gobble them down”).

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.