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According to Josephus, Baruch was a Jewish aristocrat, a son of Neriah and brother of Seraiah ben Neriah, chamberlain of King Zedekiah of Judah. [2] [3]Baruch became the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah and wrote down the first and second editions of his prophecies as they were dictated to him. [4]
These are biblical figures unambiguously identified in contemporary sources according to scholarly consensus.Biblical figures that are identified in artifacts of questionable authenticity, for example the Jehoash Inscription and the bullae of Baruch ben Neriah, or who are mentioned in ancient but non-contemporary documents, such as David and Balaam, [n 1] are excluded from this list.
This bulla was also imprinted with a fingerprint; [3] Hershel Shanks, among others, speculated that the fingerprint might be that of Baruch himself. [4] The authenticity of these bullae, however, has been disputed. ibid. Another bulla was found with the name of "Seraiahu, son of Neriyahu", believed to belong to Seraiah ben Neriah. [5]
The Inscription of King Mesha: 320–321: The Moabite Stone: Siloam inscription: 2.28: The Siloam Tunnel Inscription: 321: The Siloam Inscription: Yehimilk inscription: 2.29: The Inscription of King Yahimilk: 653–654: Yehimilk of Byblos: Kilamuwa Stela: 2.30: The Kulamuwa Inscription: 654–655: Kilamuwa of Y'dy-Sam'al: Yehawmilk Stele: 2.32 ...
A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).. A bulla (Medieval Latin for "a round seal", from Classical Latin bulla, "bubble, blob"; plural bullae) is an inscribed clay, soft metal (lead or tin), bitumen, or wax token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication and for tamper-proofing whatever is attached to it ...
The Book of Baruch is sometimes referred to as 1 Baruch [4] to distinguish it from 2 Baruch, 3 Baruch and 4 Baruch. Although the earliest known manuscripts of Baruch are in Greek, linguistic features of the first parts of Baruch (1:1–3:8) have been proposed as indicating a translation from a Semitic language .
A fact from Baruch ben Neriah appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 May 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know ... that the seal of Baruch ben Neriah , a legendary 6th century BCE scribe and disciple of the Biblical prophet Jeremiah , was found imprinted on two ...
The King Hezekiah bulla is a 3 mm thick soft bulla (piece of clay with the impression of a seal) measuring 13 × 12 mm (½ in × ½ in). It was found in an archaeological excavation together with 33 other seals, figurines and ceramics, in an ancient refuse dump adjacent to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar.