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It's a pep talk.
the magic number three -- etc.
a story made up --
you will notice that the Jews were still slaves in Babylon until the Persian Empire took over Babylon.
Personally, I would think that if these miracles did indeed happen, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego surviving the fiery furnace (with a fourth looking like "the son of God" joining them), and Daniel surviving the Lion's Den, ol' Nebuchadnezzar would have sent them all back home and all Babylon would have converted to Judaism right then and there -- sort of like Constantine converting to Christianity -- but it didn't happen. NO mass conversion of the greatest Empire at the time.
Only when Darius the Mede came on the scene (Media apparently was an area to where the Ten Tribes were deported at the Assyrian conquest) were the Jews allowed to return (wonder if any kind of filial affinity might have had something to do with this?).
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 29, 2004 at 11:53 AM
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Yes, but it wouldn't have been significant enough to write down if it worked that way. What made it significant, and therefore worthy of putting on parchment, was that three slaves changed a king. That showed the king's people that he was a powerful God, and therefore could do a mass conversion. It's efficient - one miracle, and voila - THOUSANDs of converts.
--T99
posted by
Tamara99
on August 29, 2004 at 7:02 AM
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also made a good song -- two at least as a matter of fact
of course the story is be true to your god and he will be true to you sort of like pep talk stuff
only thing is it doesn;t always h appen that way does it.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 28, 2004 at 8:41 PM
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shadrach, meshach, abednego
makes good copy - -great adventure stories.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 28, 2004 at 8:34 PM
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