This account of the fiery furnace, for good or for bad, has been 1 told and retold sooften (singing vegetables come to mind) that we are almost certainly going to come to the tablewith assumptions about it that are misguided at best and simply wrong at worst. Let’s be honestfor a moment, who ever thought that making a story of 3 men being thrown into a fiery furnacewhere their captors are literally burned alive in the attempt to execute their prisoners, was agood children’s story?