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Second Baruch: A Critical Edition of the Syriac Text

Second Baruch: A Critical Edition of the Syriac Text

Hardcover

Series: Jewish and Christian Texts

Writing InstructionBible Studies

ISBN10: 0567609405
ISBN13: 9780567609403
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 1 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

2 Baruch is a Jewish pseudepigraphon from the late first or early second century CE. It is comprised of an apocalypse (2 Baruch 1-77) and an epistle (2 Baruch 78-87). This ancient work addresses the important matter of theodicy in light of the destruction of the temple by the Romans in 70 CE. It depicts vivid and puzzling pictures of apocalyptic images in explaining the nature of the tragedy and exhorting its ancient community of readers.

Gurtner provides the first publication of the Syriac of both the apocalypse and epistle with a fresh English translation on the opposite page. Also present in parallel form are the few places where Greek and Latin texts of the book. An introduction orients readers to interpretative and textual issues of the book. Indexes and Concordances of the Syriac,

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