Hector Avalos has observed that “Daniel 3 demonstrates the complex and artistic manner in which lengthy and repeated enumerations could be integrated in a socio-religious critique of pagan social institutions such as the Babylonian government bureaucracy.” I agree with his assessment that the employment of enumeration and repetition in Dan 3 is an artistic form of socio-religious critique. However, in this paper I raise anew the question of how these narrative techniques function toward the end of ideological resistance. The paper has three major sections. I present Avalos’s view of comedic enumeration in Dan 3, critique it on the basis of a new exegetical treatment of repetitions throughout the chapter, and conclude by applying some theoretical categories from Bruce Kawin and James Scott to elucidate the biblical author’s larger strategy of inculcating Jewish resistance to imperial domination.