![]() ![]() ![]() After separating the two men, they are questioned about details of what they saw, but disagree about the tree under which Susanna supposedly met her lover. She refuses to be blackmailed, and is arrested and about to be put to death when a young man named Daniel interrupts the proceedings. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the garden unless she agrees to make love to them. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lusty elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. It recounts the story of a fair Hebrew wife who is falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. Jews recognize it as a moral tale, not part of the Tanakh. Susanna or Shoshana is part of the Biblical Book of Daniel (Daniel 13) which is considered canonical by Roman Catholics and the Greek Orthodox, and part of the apocrypha by Protestants. ![]()
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