[boatbums]

On the same point of interest, I found this while doing some reading last night:

"Julius Africanus, Christian scholar and Roman librarian, wrote a devastating letter to Origen about the story of Susanna and the elders which appears at the outset of the Greek--but not the Hebrew--text of the Book of Daniel. He thought it inauthentic for several reasons: the Jews it portrayed seemed to enjoy more freedom than was consistent with the real conditions of the Babylonian captivity, and the Daniel of the story, unlike the real prophet Daniel, prophesied in direct speech instead of by angelically inspired visions. The story as a whole, he acutely remarked, was too silly to be a Greek mime. But his chief argument was as simple as it was definitive. The story contains two crucial, elaborate puns--in Greek. Therefore it could not be a straight translation from the Hebrew, in which the puns would have been meaningless." (http://christianthinktank.com/pseudox.html

[daniel1212]

Interesting. Judith might be also.