Shadrack (Robert MacGimsey song) the 1951 film "The Strip", the song is performed by a band featuring Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden, among others. The lyrics refer to the biblical account of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the fiery furnace. Shadrack (Robert MacGimsey song) "Shadrack" (aka "Shadrach" or "Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego") is a popular song written by Robert MacGimsey in the 1930s and performed by Louis Armstrong and others. In 1962 the song was a hit single for Brook Benton, peaking at #19 in Billboard's Hot 100 chart during the week of February 17, 1962. The song is featured on pop, soul, Gospel
Old Testament account for the many different Old Testaments which exist today. Timothy H. Lim, a professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Edinburgh, identifies the Old Testament as "a collection of authoritative texts of apparently divine origin that went through a human process of writing and editing." He states that it is not a magical book, nor was it literally written by God and passed to mankind. By about the 5th century BC Jews saw the five books of the Torah (the Old Testament Pentateuch) as having authoritative status; by the 2nd century BC the Prophets