| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 447 pages) |
| Series |
Commentaries on early Jewish literature |
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Commentaries on early Jewish literature.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Purposes and Methods -- Manuscript evidence -- Scholarship -- Original language -- Date -- Provenance -- Content -- Message -- Method -- Worldview -- General conclusions -- Bibliography -- Translation and commentary |
| Summary |
This work provides the key to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts preserved in Greek and Slavonic. 3 Baruch, properly read, significantly enriches our understanding of the history of the motifs found in early Jewish lore, at times providing missing links between different stages of their development, and preserves important evidence on the roots of Jewish mysticism, proto-Gnostic and proto-Christian traditions. New volume of much valued commentary series Provides the key to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts (so far neglected by modern scholarship for its complex |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-85) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Greek Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Greek Apocalypse of Baruch fast |
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Griechische Baruchapokalypse gnd |
| Subject |
Apocryphal books.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies.
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Apocryphal books
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110212495 |
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3110212498 |
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9786612716287 |
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6612716282 |
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