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Bodies abound in the book of Daniel. In the very first chapter bold captives refusedefilement of their bodies by foreign food and present “bodies of evidence” tosupport their case. In the next story history itself finds embodiment in a huge statue.In the two martyr stories (Dan 3 and 6) potentially destructive bodily punishment isenvisaged. In Dan 4 the body of a king becomes the body of a beast and in Dan 5 asevered bodily part leads to a king losing control over his bodily functions. In thevisionary part of the book (Dan 7-12) empires find embodiment in weird animals,and even the divine being is represented by a (human) body! The book reaches aclimax in the last chapter by hinting at a bodily resurrection. This paper addressesthe question of what these bodies are “saying” apart from the words uttered by thetalking characters to which they “belong.” What are the cultural structures that aresubverted or reinforced by means of the silently speaking bodies in the book ofDaniel?

THE BOLD, THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE BEASTS IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL