practice of confining them for some time before deciding their fate, and this may be the case in this verse as well.417 Identical harsh treatment and meager rations are afforded a prisoner in a fourth-century liturgical text from Egypt written in Aramaic: “Let them be brought down from the dining hall to the dungeon and allotted bread and water.”418 Scale armor ▲ Mark Borisuk/www.BiblePlaces.com Between the sections of his armor (22:34). An identical scene replete with detailed relief of pierced