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Susanna and the Elders by Artemisia Gentileschi. Susanna (/ s u ˈ z æ n ə /; Hebrew: שׁוֹשַׁנָּה, Modern: Šōšanna, Tiberian: Šōšannā: "lily"), also called Susanna and the Elders, is a narrative included in the Book of Daniel (as chapter 13) by the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
Daniel 3:24 – 90: The Song of the Three Holy Children Story of Susanna: Danielis caput 13: Daniel chapter 13: The History of Susanna The Idol Bel and the Dragon: Danielis caput 14: Daniel chapter 14: The History of the Destruction of Bel and the Dragon Prayer of Manasses: Oratio Manassae regis: Prayer of Manasses
Chapter 4: Nebuchadnezzar's Madness; Chapter 5: Belshazzar's Feast; Chapter 6: Daniel in the Lions's Den; Chapter 7: The Four Beasts; Chapter 8: The Ram, He-Goat and Horn; Chapter 9: The Seventy Weeks; Chapters 10–12: Daniel's final vision; Additions to Daniel: - Song of the Three Holy Children - Susanna and the Elders (Daniel 13) - Bel and ...
Daniel, Bel and the Dragon (France, 15th century) The chapter contains a single story which may previously have represented three separate narratives, [2] [3] [4] which place Daniel at the court of Cyrus, king of the Persians: "When King Astyages was laid to rest with his ancestors, Cyrus the Persian succeeded to his kingdom."
The Book of Daniel is a 2nd-century BC biblical apocalypse with a 6th-century BC setting. Ostensibly "an account of the activities and visions of Daniel, a noble Jew exiled at Babylon", [1] the text features a prophecy rooted in Jewish history, as well as a portrayal of the end times that is both cosmic in scope and political in its focus. [2]
Chapter 4: Nebuchadnezzar's Madness; Chapter 5: Belshazzar's Feast; Chapter 6: Daniel in the Lions's Den; Chapter 7: The Four Beasts; Chapter 8: The Ram, He-Goat and Horn; Chapter 9: The Seventy Weeks; Chapters 10–12: Daniel's final vision; Additions to Daniel: - Song of the Three Holy Children - Susanna and the Elders (Daniel 13) - Bel and ...
[23] [24] The author of Daniel, mindful of certain prophecies that the Medes would destroy Babylon (Jeremiah 51:11,28 and Isaiah 13:17), and needing a Median king to complete his four-kingdom schema (see the story of Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2), appears to have taken the historical Darius and projected him into a fictional past. [24 ...
The name Palmoni (Hebrew: פלמוני, romanized: Palmōnî) appears in the original Hebrew in the biblical book of Daniel. [1] The still widely used King James Version of 1611 refers to Palmoni indirectly as "that certain saint" – "or," as a marginal note from the translators says, "the numberer of secrets, or, the wonderful numberer: Heb. Palmoni."