insofar as Belshazzar is the son of Nabonidus, Darius the Mede is unknown outside Daniel, and there is no record of madness for Nebuchadnezzar. Rather, the latter is better applied to the already-mentioned Nabonidus and the ten years he spent in a kind of self-exile in the Arabian city of Teman. Indeed, this is seen as confirmed by the Dead Sea Scrolls fragment regarding a seven-year illness of Nabonidus, whose recovery was due to a Jewish exorcist (Prayer of Nabonidus [4Q242]). For the issues raised