Susanna or Shoshana (Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנָּה, Modern Šošana Tiberian Šôšannâ: "lily") is included in the Book of Daniel (as chapter 13) by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. As the story goes, a fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. 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 have sex with them. She refuses to be blackmailed and is arrested and about to be put to death for promiscuity when a young man named Daniel interrupts the proceedings, shouting that the elders should be questioned to prevent the death of an innocent. After being separated, the two men are questioned about details (cross-examination) of what they saw but disagree about the tree under which Susanna supposedly met her lover. In the Greek text, the names of the trees cited by the elders form puns with the sentence given by Daniel. The first says they were under a mastic (ὑπο σχίνον, hupo schinon), and Daniel says that an angel stands ready to cut (σχίσει, schisei) him in two. The second says they were under an evergreen oak tree (ὑπο πρίνον, hupo prinon), and Daniel says that an angel stands ready to saw (πρίσαι, prisai) him in two. The great difference in size between a mastic and an oak makes the elders' lie plain to all the observers. The false accusers are put to death, and virtue triumphs.
Susanna and the Elders, Gerrit van Honthorst
Susanna and the Elders, Guido Reni
Susanna and the Elders, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Susanna and the Elders, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Susanna and the Elders, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Susanna and the Elders, Peter Paul Rubens
Susanna and the Elders, Peter Paul Rubens
Susanna and the Elders, Peter Paul Rubens
Susanna and the Elders, Jacopo Tintoretto
Susanna and the Elders, Sisto Badalocchio
Susanna and the Elders, Massimo Stanzione
Susanna and the Elders, Francesco Trevisani
Susanna and the Elders, Giovanni Francesco Guercino
Susanna and the Elders, Sebastiano Ricci
The accused Susanna and the Prophet Daniel, Sebastiano Ricci
Susanna and the Elders, Lorenzo Lotto
Susanna and the Elders, Joseph-Marie Vien
Susanna And The Elders, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone
Susanna and the Elders, Guido Cagnacci
Susanna And The Elders, Gustave Moreau
Susanna and the Elders, Anthony van Dyck
Susanna and the Elders , Massimo Stanzione
Susanna at the Bath, Jean-Baptiste Santerre
Susanna and Elders, Vincent Sellaer
Susanna and the Elders, Jan Massys
Susanna and the Elders, Nicolas Bertin
Copy of Tizian´s Suzanne at her bath , Lars Hansen
Susanna and the Elders, Pompeo Batoni
Susanna and the Elders, Franz von Stuck
Susanna and the Elders, Franz von Stuck
Susanna and the Elders, Franz von Stuck
Susanna, Theodor Baierl
Susanna and the Elders, Franz Stuck
Susanna in the Bath Franz Stuck
Susanna and the Elders, Lucas van Leyden
Susanna and the Elders, Annibale Carracci
Sequence of the so-called " Lascivie ", Agostino Carracci
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