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Hello, My Name Is: DANIEL

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Written by
Robert Cargill, Associate Professor of Classics and Biblical Studies
Bible & Archaeology (University of Iowa)

From the Hebrew words דן (dan) meaning "judge," and the name of the Canaanite deity אל (ʾEl), which later became a generic Semitic word for "god," the name Daniel means "My judge is God" or "My judge is ʾEl."

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