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3 Baruch or the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch is a visionary, pseudepigraphic text written some time between the fall of Jerusalem to the Roman Empire in 70 AD [1] [2] [page needed] and the third century AD. [1] [3] Scholars disagree on whether it was written by a Jew or a Christian, or whether a clear distinction can be made in this era. [1]
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 .
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]
Baruch Writes Jeremiah's Prophecies (Gustave Doré). According to the text of the letter, the author is the biblical prophet Jeremiah.The biblical Book of Jeremiah itself contains the words of a letter sent by Jeremiah "from Jerusalem" to the "captives" in Babylon (Jeremiah 29:1–23).
The Apocalypse of Baruch are two different Jewish pseudepigraphical texts written in the late 1st/early 2nd century AD/CE, after the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 AD, though attributed to Baruch ben Neriah (c. 6th century BC). Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch or 2 Baruch is named for the fact that it predominantly survives in Syriac manuscripts
Joshua Boaz ben Simon Baruch (died 1557), also known as the Shiltei Giborim after a work he authored, was a prominent Talmudist who lived at Sabbioneta, and later at Savigliano. [1] He was a descendant of an old Judæo-Spanish family, and probably settled in Italy after the banishment of the Jews from Spain .
The Jewish apocrypha (Hebrew: הספרים החיצוניים, romanized: HaSefarim haChitzoniyim, lit. 'the outer books') are religious texts written in large part by Jews, especially during the Second Temple period, not accepted as sacred manuscripts when the Hebrew Bible was canonized.
2 Baruch, also called the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch; 3 Baruch, also called the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch; 4 Baruch, also known as the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah; Baruch College, part of the City University of New York system, named after Bernard Baruch; Baruch Plan, a proposed U.S. atomic energy plan following World War II by Bernard Baruch