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See also:REST OF THE WORDS OF See also:BARUCH
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This See also:book was undoubtedly written originally by a See also:Jew but was subsequently revised by a See also:Christian, as has been shown by Kohler in the Jewish Quarterly See also:Review (1893), pp
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407–409
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It passed under a See also:double name in the Abyssinian See also: Baruch remains in See also:Jerusalem and Jeremiah accompanies the Exiles to See also:Babylon . After 66 years'See also:exile Jeremiah brings back the See also:Jews to Jerusalem, but refuses to admit such as had brought with them See also:heathen wives . Then follows a See also:vision of Jeremiah which is Christian . Harris regards the book in its, p' esent See also:form as an eirenicon addressed to the Jews by a Christian after the See also:rebellion of See also:Bar Cochba (See also:Barcochebas) and written about 136 . Though the See also:original See also:work was dependent on the Apocalypse of Baruch it cannot have been written much before the See also:close of the 1st cent . A.D . Its See also:terminus ad See also:quern is at See also:present indeterminable . (R . H . |
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