most part, have a completely different texture. These folktales (such as Daniel in the lions’ den) address the question of how to sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land by offering stories about young people who remain faithful, in various ways, to their Jewish culture, faith, and ethnic identity, and still prosper. The apocalyptic visions in Daniel 7–12 address the question in a different way: rather than sketching daytime coping strategies for living in the Diaspora, they offer nighttime cosmic