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  2. Bel and the Dragon - Wikipedia

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    The king says that, unlike Bel, the dragon is a clear example of a live animal. Daniel promises to slay the dragon without the aid of a sword, and does so by baking pitch, fat, and hair (trichas) to make cakes (mazas, barley-cakes) that cause the dragon to burst open upon consumption.

  3. Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children

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    - Bel and the Dragon (Daniel 14) The Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, abbreviated Pr Azar, [1] is a passage which appears after Daniel 3:23 in ...

  4. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego - Wikipedia

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    - Bel and the Dragon (Daniel 14) Book of Daniel. It is ... the Greek historian Herodotus mentions a golden image of the god Bel in Babylon, ...

  5. Additions to Daniel - Wikipedia

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    Bel and the Dragon: after Daniel 12:13 in Greek, an epilogue; chapter 14 in the Vulgate. Daniel's detective work reveals that a brass idol believed to miraculously consume sacrifices is in fact a front for a corrupt priesthood which is stealing the offerings. [3]

  6. Bel (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    A god named Bel was the chief-god of Palmyra, Syria in pre-Hellenistic times, being worshipped alongside the gods Aglibol and Yarhibol. [3] Originally, he was known as Bol, [4] after the Northwestern Semitic word Ba'al [5] (usually used to refer to the god Hadad), until the cult of Bel-Marduk spread to Palmyra and by 213 BC, Bol was renamed to Bel. [4]

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  8. Astyages - Wikipedia

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    Theodotion's translation of Daniel 14, Chapter 14 of the deutero-canonical version of the biblical Book of Daniel, otherwise known as Bel and the Dragon, opens with the accession of Cyrus after the death of Astyages. [13] According to the original Douay-Rheims Bible, Darius the Mede is another name for Astyages. [14] [15]

  9. Daniel (biblical figure) - Wikipedia

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    Daniel (Arabic: دانيال, Dānyāl) is not mentioned by name in the Qur'an, but there are accounts of his prophet-hood in later Muslim literature, which tells how he was rescued from lions with the aid of the prophet Jeremiah (in Bel and the Dragon it is the prophet Habakkuk who plays this role) and interpreted the king's dream of a statue ...