Daniel The Prophet in the Flames

Daniel: The Prophet in the Flames is a literary novel that reimagines the biblical story of Daniel as an intimate psychological journey. Taken from Jerusalem as a teenager and exiled to Babylon, Daniel must navigate the most powerful empire of the ancient world without losing himself in it. Alongside his three lifelong friends — Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah — he learns that identity is not what others call you, but what you know yourself to be. The novel follows Daniel across seven decades: his years of palace education, his interpretation of the king's forgotten dream, the night his three friends walked into a furnace and encountered something inexplicable inside it, his own night among lions, and the visions that came to him in old age. Written in the reflective, sensory style of literary fiction, the story is told by an eighty-two-year-old Daniel sitting alone on the bank of the Euphrates, looking back at a life shaped by displacement, friendship, loss, and an unshakeable faith. At its heart, the novel asks a single question that crosses every century: when the world demands that you bow, what — or who — do you stand for?