Daniel
Exile
Daniel was a Judean youth taken to Babylon during Nebuchadnezzar's first deportation (605 BCE), whose story is recounted in the book bearing his name. Remaining faithful to Jewish dietary laws and prayer despite pressure to assimilate, he rose to prominence through God-given ability to interpret dreams and visions, most famously Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a great statue representing successive world empires …