Daniel 1 Footnotes
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1:5 Tablets listing the provisions allotted to the exiled King Jehoiachin (2Kg 25:30; Jr 52:34) have been uncovered in Babylon and corroborate Daniel’s testimony that captives were assigned royal rations. The Babylonian training period of three years was apparently similar to that of the Persians. Plato wrote that Persian youths began their education when fourteen (Alcibiades 1.121), and Xenophon testified that they finished when sixteen or seventeen (Cyropaedia 1.2.8). According to the Persian Avesta, a Zoroastrian scripture, a student trained with a religious teacher for three years.
1:7 Dual names were not uncommon in ancient times. Pharaoh assigned Joseph an Egyptian name (Gn 41:45), and Hadassah is better known by her Persian name, Esther (Est 2:7).