Daniel
620 BCE–538 BCE · Biblical · Babylonia (exile era)
Daniel was a Judean nobleman exiled to Babylon as a youth after the fall of Jerusalem, who rose to high office in the courts of Nebuchadnezzar and the Persian kings while remaining uncompromisingly faithful. His book recounts his refusal of the king's food, his interpretation of dreams and the writing on the wall, and his survival in the lions' den. Its later chapters record sweeping visions of the rise and fall of empires and the end of days that became foundational to Jewish eschatology. He lived out his life in the Babylonian and Persian exile.
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About Babylonia (exile era)
Babylonia in the exile era refers to Mesopotamia (Iraq) during and after the Babylonian Exile, when the population of the Kingdom of Judah was deported by Nebuchadnezzar following the destruction of the First Temple (586 BCE). The biblical books of Ezekiel and Daniel are set among the exiles in Babylonia, and the Esther narrative unfolds in the Persian period that followed; this community became the seed of the great Babylonian Jewish center.
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