Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are figures from chapter 3 of the Book of Daniel, three Hebrew men thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, when they refuse to bow down to the king's image; the three are preserved from harm and the king sees four men walking in the flames, "the fourth ... like a son of God". The first six chapters of Daniel are stories dating from the late Persian/early Hellenistic period, and Daniel's absence from the story of the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace suggests that it may originally have
Names and titles of God in the New Testament of whether to rescue section of the "sifre minim" (Hebrew language texts of Jewish Christians) containing the tetragrammata from a house fire. Daniel Boyarin includes "even their books of Torah" in this quote. The New Testament contains statements attributed to individuals quoting the Old Testament. George Howard concludes, because extant copies of the Septuagint from as late as the 3rd century CE contain the tetragrammaton or related forms (e.g. 4Q120 (1st century BCE), P Oxy. 3522 (1st century CE), P Oxy 5101 (50 and 150 CE), P Oxy 1007 (3rd century CE), Q (6th century CE)), that New Testament writers