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\u201cThe word of the LORD came to me: O mortal, if a land were to sin against Me and commit a trespass, and I stretched out My hand against it and broke its staff of bread, and sent famine against it and cut off man and beast from it, even if these three men\u2014Noah, Daniel, and Job\u2014should be in it, they would by their righteousness save only themselves\u2014declares the Lord GOD\u201d (vs. 12-14).<\/span><\/p>\n

God tells Ezekiel that the situation among the Israelites is so bad that even the most righteous people would be hard-pressed to save themselves, or even their families, let alone others. Two of the three figures He names, Noah and Job, had the reputations of righteousness. God declared to Noah: \u201cI have seen you righteous in this generation\u201d (Gen. 7:1), and He called Job \u201cperfectly straight, God fearing, and avoiding evil\u201d (Job 1:8).<\/span><\/p>\n

The medieval exegetes assumed that the Daniel mentioned here was the biblical Daniel, but while he was unquestionably a virtuous man, there are problems with his inclusion in this trio. First, unlike Noah and Job, Daniel is never distinguished in Scripture as distinctively righteous. Two, while the biblical Daniel was Jewish, Noah and Job were not. Three, as he was a contemporary of Ezekiel, it is unclear how that prophet\u2019s audience would even have known of him. I am not even sure that the reference here is to the biblical Daniel at all if we look carefully at the spelling of his name. While the biblical character is Da-ni-yel (with a <\/span>yod<\/span><\/i>), our third man is Da-ni-el (no <\/span>yod<\/span><\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Curiously, there was a Daniel who fit all these criteria: a reputedly righteous non-Jew of antiquity. He was a king mentioned in a Canaanite myth known as the Epic of Aqhat, his name was Dan\u2019il, and he is described there as an ideally righteous ruler. This identification is possibly reinforced by the solo reference to Da-ni-el in 28:3, a prophecy that is directed specifically towards the King of Tyre (<\/span>Tzor<\/span><\/i>), a Canaanite city.<\/span><\/p>\n

The consensus of the medievals is that the common denominator among these three is that each survived a catastrophe: Noah, the flood; Daniel, the destruction of the Temple; and Job, the manifold disasters that befell him. And Moshe Greenberg, while accepting the identification with the Ugaritic Dan\u2019il, nevertheless noted: \u201cHere they serve to underline the ruthless, rigorous discrimination God exercises when he punishes a wicked community\u201d (Anchor Bible <\/span>Ezekiel<\/span><\/i>, 258).<\/span><\/p>\n

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