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Author Whitters, Mark

Title Epistle of Second Baruch : a Study in Form and Message
Published London : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages)
Series The Library of New Testament Studies
Library of New Testament studies.
Contents Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 SURVEY OF THE TEXTUAL TRADITION AND CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP; Chapter 2 STRUCTURE AND COMPONENTS OF ApB AND Ep2B; Chapter 3 LETTER-WRITING MODELS FOR Ep2B; Chapter 4 THE ORIGIN AND MILIEU OF Ep2B; Excursus 1 WHEN WAS THE BOOK WRITTEN?; Excursus 2 TESTAMENT AND Ep2B; Select Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
Summary 2 Baruch is one of the more important apocalyptic writings among the Jewish Pseudepigrapha (written at the end of the 1st century AD and so contemporary with the New Testament). The Epistle is a message to the Jews of the Dispersion. Whitters is arguing that the document was once an authoritative text for a specific community, and gives us clues about the important era between the two Jewish wars of 70 and 132 AD, when Judaism was assuming radical new forms. This Epistle tells Diapora Jews how to live in a world without the Jerusalem Temple
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SUBJECT Bible. O.T. Apocrypha. Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Baruch fast
Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch fast
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567567789
0567567788