Apocrypha Major ProphetsDeuterocanonical · KJVA

Susanna

Susanna is a vivid courtroom drama. Two corrupt elders try to coerce the beautiful and faithful Susanna into adultery; when she refuses, they accuse her publicly and have her condemned to death. The young Daniel, stirred by God, interrupts the verdict, separates and cross-examines the elders, and exposes the lie by their conflicting testimony. The book is a celebration of chastity, divine vindication, and discerning justice.

Author
Anonymous (Greek addition to Daniel)

Stands as Daniel 13 in the Greek and Vulgate. The KJVA prints it as a separate short book.

Date Written
c. 150 BC
Audience
Hellenistic Jews — and any community asked to trust God against false witness
Length
1 chapter

Susanna is part of the Apocrypha, so the reader opens in KJVA by default — KJV doesn't include it.

Major Themes

Innocence Justice Discernment Truth Vindication

Cross-references for Susanna aren't available yet

Our cross-reference dataset comes from OpenBible.info (CC-BY) — a community-curated resource that covers the Old and New Testaments only. The Apocrypha isn't yet in their dataset, so we don't have an arc-map for Susanna on this page.

Susanna is still richly connected to the rest of Scripture — the early church quoted it, later writers built on it, and scholarly cross-reference editions (e.g. the Jerusalem Bible, the Nova Vulgata) catalogue those links. We're tracking the gap and will add Apocrypha cross-references when a permissive open dataset becomes available.

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