 Three verses in the Book of Ezekiel (, , and ) refer to "Danel" which, according to the Masoretic Text, should be read as "Daniel".This notwithstanding, parallels and contrasts with Danel (without "i") of the Book of Ezekiel, placed between Noah and Job and invoked as the very example of righteous judgement, first pointed out by René Dussaud in 1931, have led readers commonly to accept  or occasionally to reject  a degree of identification with Ugaritic Danel of the "Aqhat text", amounting virtually to the same figure.The three figures referred to in  — "Even if Noah, Danel and Job were in it..." — links the name with two non-Israelites of great antiquity.