carried on the same breeze as the smoke from Auschwitz. There is little distance between the Fiery Furnace and the Holocaust. These two monstrous events—the one literary fiction, the other unbelievable fact—are both expressions of a demonic attempt to silence the spirit of faith and, with it, the voice of God. Chapter 3 of the book of Daniel is not simply a story for children. The initial focus of the chapter is on a huge but ill-proportioned ‘image of gold’ constructed by order of King Nebuchadnezzar.