Daniel, whose name means “God is my Judge,” wrote this book (8:15, 27; 9:2; 10:2, 7; 12:4–5). He wrote in the autobiographical first person from 7:2 on and should be distinguished from the other three Daniels of the Old Testament (see 1 Chronicles 3:1; Ezra 8:2; Nehemiah 10:6). As a teenager, possibly about fifteen years old, Daniel was taken captive, virtually kidnapped, from his noble family in Judah. He and other young Jewish men were deported to Babylon to be brainwashed into Babylonian culture