Bel and the Dragon
![Stephan Kessler's Daniel and King Cyrus in Bel's Temple](/Images/godic/202412/23/Kessler_Daniel_und_König_Cyrus_im_Tempel4734.jpg")
![Daniel, Bel and the Dragon (France, 15th century)](/Images/godic/202412/23/Daniel_Bel_et_le_dragon4734.jpg")
The narrative of Bel and the Dragon is incorporated as chapter 14 of the extended Book of Daniel. The text exists only in Greek (while the oldest copies of the Book of Daniel are entirely in Hebrew and Aramaic). The original Septuagint text survives in a single manuscript, Codex Chisianus, while the standard text is due to Theodotion, the 2nd-century AD revisor.