A Song in the Furnace: The Message of the Book of Daniel
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Overview
The Book of Daniel should be read with the eyes of a child. It’s a book of wonders and extremes—mad kings, baffling dreams with gifted interpreters, breathtaking deliverances, astounding prophecies—with even what may be the world’s first detective stories added in for good measure. To argue over the book’s historicity, as scholars have done for centuries, is to miss the point. In A Song in the Furnace, Fr. Lawrence Farley reveals all the wonders of this unique book to the receptive eye.
Key Features
- Emphasizes the wonder and mystery of the story of Daniel
- Challenges readers to examine this book with fresh eyes
- Introduces a message from Daniel that is still relevant today
Contents
- Part I: Daniel and His Friends Come to the King’s Court in Babylon
- Daniel 1: Entering the King’s Service
- Part II: The Adventures of Daniel and His Friends at the King’s Court
- Daniel 2: Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
- Daniel 3: Nebuchadnezzar’s Furnace
- Additions to the Book of Daniel: The Prayer of Azariah and the Hymn of the Three Young Men
- Daniel 4: The King’s Madness
- Daniel 5: The Writing on the Wall
- Daniel 6: Daniel in the Den
- Part III: The Visions of Daniel at the King’s Court
- Daniel 7: The Vision of the Four Beasts and the Man
- Daniel 8: The Vision of the Ram and the He-goat
- Daniel 9: The Vision of the Seventy Weeks
- Daniel 10:1—12:4: The Final Vision
- Daniel 12:5–13: Epilogue
- Part IV: Additions and Conclusion
- Additions to the Book of Daniel: The Story of Susanna and the Story of Bel and the Serpent
- Conclusion: Final Reflections
Product Details
- Title: A Song in the Furnace: The Message of the Book of Daniel
- Author: Farley, Lawrence R.
- Publisher: Ancient Faith Publishing
- Publication Date: 2018
- Pages: 248
- Christian Group: Orthodox
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Daniel
About Lawrence Farley
Archpriest Lawrence Farley is the pastor of St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church (OCA) in Langley, B.C., Canada. He received his B.A. from Trinity College, Toronto, and his M.Div. from Wycliffe College, Toronto. A former Anglican priest, he converted to Orthodoxy in 1985 and studied for two years at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary in Pennsylvania. In addition to the Orthodox Bible Companion Series, he has also published Let Us Attend, One Flesh, The Christian Old Testament, and A Daily Calendar of Saints.