On the Greek text. The Greek follows the standard critical text of the Septuagint (Rahlfs-Hanhart in its main wording, itself an ancient, public-domain text); the distinctively copyrighted critical apparatus is not reproduced. Versification follows the LXX.

Susanna (LXX) — Interlinear: Themes, Outlines & Translation Notes

A consolidated companion to the Susanna data set: every chapter of LXX Susanna (1-1) rendered as a six-tier Greek reverse-interlinear (Greek · gloss · parsing/case · syntax · semantic force · lexical note), with per-verse discourse analysis and a chapter argument-outline.

This document gathers the theme, the argument outline (the outline movements authored into each data file), and the translation / textual / exegetical notes (the text_note of each file, reproduced verbatim). Major translation and interpretive cruxes are handled within those notes rather than silently resolved. Susanna is the Greek Danielic courtroom narrative of a righteous woman falsely accused, two corrupt elders exposed, and Daniel's spirit-given discernment vindicating the innocent through cross-examination. The Greek follows the standard critical text of the Septuagint (Rahlfs–Hanhart in its main wording, itself an ancient public-domain text); the distinctively copyrighted apparatus is not reproduced, and versification follows the LXX.

Scope

Each annotated word carries Greek, a working gloss, color-coded grammatical case, parsing (Tense·Voice·Mood·Person·Number + lemma), a Wallace-style syntactic-function label, an aspectual semantic-force label (verbal forms), and a condensed lexical note. As translation Greek, the annotation additionally flags Hebraisms and the underlying Hebrew idiom where it illuminates the rendering.

The argument of the book

The macro-structure of this single-chapter book — its major movements — under which the chapter detail below unfolds. Susanna moves from exemplary household piety to predatory false testimony, from communal miscarriage of justice to Daniel's intervention, and then to the reversal in which the plotters fall by the law they abused.

• I · 1 — False accusation, wise discernment, and vindication. Susanna's beauty and piety provoke corrupt desire, the elders weaponize legal procedure when refused, Daniel interrupts the death sentence by separating the witnesses, and the innocent woman is saved while the false judges are condemned.

Chapter-by-chapter

Susanna 1 — ΣΟΥΣΑΝΝΑ Α′

Theme. The chapter is a courtroom narrative of false accusation, threatened judicial murder, and Spirit-given forensic reversal.

Outline.

• A · 1:1-4 — A righteous household and a beautiful law-taught wife are introduced.
• B · 1:5-14 — Corrupt elders desire Susanna and agree on a secret plot.
• C · 1:15-27 — Susanna refuses the elders and is trapped under false accusation.
• D · 1:28-41 — The public hearing accepts the elders' charge and condemns Susanna.
• E · 1:42-49 — Susanna appeals to the all-knowing God and Daniel halts the verdict.
• F · 1:50-59 — Separate examination exposes the false witnesses.
• G · 1:60-64 — The assembly reverses judgment, kills the elders, and honors God.

Translation & textual notes. The Greek text of Susanna here follows the Theodotionic form preserved in the Septuagintal Daniel tradition (the source scaffold came from CCAT's 64.SusTh.mlxx), the form that displaced the shorter Old Greek in most Christian manuscript transmission; the critical apparatus is not reproduced. The chapter is a courtroom narrative of false accusation, threatened judicial murder, and Spirit-given forensic reversal. Its opening stresses Susanna's beauty, education in the law of Moses, and household dignity so that the later charge is measured against a fully established character. The two elders are not merely lustful men but judges whose office has already been corrupted, so the story is as much about poisoned leadership as sexual violence. The central scene turns on legal procedure: the elders use the appearance of two-witness testimony to secure a death sentence, while Daniel saves Susanna not by private feeling but by re-opening the case, separating the witnesses, and exposing contradiction. The famous tree exchange in vv. 54-59 works as a Greek punning judgment oracle - σχῖνος answered by σχίσει, πρῖνος by πρίσαι - so the narrative as we have it is deeply shaped by Greek wordplay rather than being a mechanically transparent translation from a lost Semitic Vorlage. The chapter therefore joins sapiential discernment, judicial ethics, and divine vindication: the God who knows hidden things hears the cry of the innocent, exposes perverted testimony, and turns the law's penalty back on those who abused it. Versification follows the LXX.

How the data set is organized

• lxx-interlinear/data/susanna1.json — the durable scholarly content: one JSON object per chapter (reference, titles, text-note, outline, and verses with per-word annotation and per-verse discourse notes). The data set shares the nt-interlinear toolkit and schema with the New Testament volumes.
• lxx-interlinear/ — the LXX data home and index builder; rendering reuses the chapter-agnostic nt-interlinear toolkit (stdlib-only HTML; headless-Chromium PDF). Adding a chapter (or a book) requires no code changes.
• Rendered artifacts — Susanna1.html and .pdf under lxxsite/Susanna/, linked from its index.html in the Septuagint site root.

The interpretive tiers (syntactic function, semantic force, discourse structure, and the proposed argument outlines) are interpretive by nature; where readings legitimately differ, the more common analysis was generally chosen, and the lexical notes are condensed orientation rather than a substitute for a lexicon (e.g. LEH / Muraoka) or a full commentary.