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• BARUCH

BARUCH  . This book was undoubtedly written originally by a Jew but was subsequently revised by a Christian, as has been shown by Kohler in the Jewish Quarterly Review (1893), pp . 407–409 . It passed under a double name in the Abyssinian Church, where it was known both as " the Rest of the Words of Baruch " and " the Rest of the Words of Jeremiah." Its Greek name is the latter—ea vrapaAetv6yeaa 'Iepeµiou 7rpo ijrov . It has been preserved in Greek, Ethiopic, Armenian and Slavonic . The Greek was first printed at Venice in 'bog, next by Ceriani in 1868 in his Mon . Sacra, v . 1r-18; by Harris, The Rest of the Words of Baruch, in 1889; and Bassiliev, Anec . Graeco-Byzantina, i . 308 sqq . (1893) . The book begins like the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch with an account of the removal of the sacred vessels of theTemple before its capture by the Chaldees .

Baruch remains in

Jerusalem and Jeremiah accompanies the Exiles to Babylon . After 66 years'exile Jeremiah brings back the Jews to Jerusalem, but refuses to admit such as had brought with them heathen wives . Then follows a vision of Jeremiah which is Christian . Harris regards the book in its, p' esent form as an eirenicon addressed to the Jews by a Christian after the rebellion of Bar Cochba (Barcochebas) and written about 136 . Though the original work was dependent on the Apocalypse of Baruch it cannot have been written much before the close of the 1st cent . A.D . Its terminus ad quern is at present indeterminable . (R . H .