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For a comprehensive discussion of this entire period, see Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1991).

M. Dephrana’s Istoria tes Sosannes (1671).

Epistill of Swete Susane (mid-14th century) and Ralph Radcliffe’s The Delivery of Susanna (1540).

Sixtus Bircke’s Susanna (1532) and Hugo Salus’ Susanna im Bade (1901).

Une vie de Saincte Susanne (1470) and Antoine de Montchretien’s Susane ou la Chastete [1601].

Feminism and Art History, p. 165.

“Susanna Accused” by Antoine Coypel.

Mary D. Garrard, “Artemisia and Susanna” in Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, eds. Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), pp. 146–171.

The latter is referred to in the literature as the “Genoveva” theme. For details on the “Genevieve, Genoveva” genre, see Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed, vol. 11, p. 594; or, more recently and better, see K. 2,112 in Stith Thompson, Motif-Index of Folk-Literature (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1957), vol. 4, p. 474.

See Walter Baumgartner, “Susanna—Die Geschichte einer Legende,” Archiv fur Religionswissenschaft (ARW) 24 (1926), pp. 259–280; “Der Weise knabe und die des Ehebruchs beschuldigte Frau,” ARW 27 (1929), pp. 187–188. Both articles are reprinted in Zum Alten Testament und seiner Umwelt (Leiden: Brill, 1959), pp. 42–67.