{"id":71640,"date":"2020-03-14T19:59:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=71640"},"modified":"2020-03-14T19:59:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:59:31","slug":"the-post-biblical-baruch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-post-biblical-baruch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post-Biblical Baruch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"acf":{"old_id":"71640","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"436","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"A personality for the ages","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our Chapter deals with the relationship between Jeremiah and Baruch ben Neriah. It may be recalled that Jeremiah previously entrusted to Baruch two deeds of land purchase, instructing him \u201cto put them into an earthen jar, so that they may last a long time\u201d (32:12-16). Baruch now serves as Jeremiah\u2019s scribe, secretary, spokesman, confidant and counselor (see also 43:3 and 45:1). Jeremiah, who is in hiding, instructs Baruch to read out in the Temple, the scroll of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies of doom on the Judeans as punishment for their disobedience. However, the Judean King Jehoiakim destroys this scroll in anger as it is read out to him. At the end of our chapter we are told: \u201cSo Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. And at Jeremiah\u2019s dictation, he wrote in it the whole text of the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah had burned; and more of the like was added\u201d (Jeremiah 36:32).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baruch continued to intrigue those who lived beyond Biblical times. These traditions are included in four pseudepigraphic works known simply as \u201cThe Book of Baruch\u201d (I Baruch), which is a composite work. The first part is a prose letter that Baruch reads to the King Jehoiachin and the other Babylonian exiles, which causes them to repent and send money as an offering to the Temple. This part of the work, apparently based on a Hebrew original, was included in the Jewish 3rd century BCE Greek translation of what was then regarded as Scripture, the Septuagint. Many Christians include these works, known collectively as the \u201cApocrypha\u201d, in their versions of the Bible. The second part of this \u201cBook of Baruch\u201d consists of two poems, the first of which admonishes Israel to return to the worship of God. The second poem describes the plight of Israel in Exile and promises future redemption. The work as a whole may have been compiled sometime between 100 BCE to 100 CE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (II Baruch) seems to have originally been written in Hebrew sometime after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. In this work, Baruch narrates that he witnessed the destruction of the First Temple and tells of his visions of the coming redemption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (III Baruch) seems to have been originally composed in Greek between the first and third centuries CE. In this work Baruch describes his marvelous journey through the heavens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rest of the Words of Baruch (IV Baruch) probably written in Hebrew or Aramaic in the first or second centuries CE survives in various other languages. It tells how Baruch remained in Jerusalem while Jeremiah accompanied the Exiles to Babylonia returning at their head 66 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, a fragment (7Q2) was discovered that seems to preserve a text similar to that in the Septuagint Book of Baruch (I Baruch) Chapter 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Image: Baruch ben Neriah, Ant\u00f4nio Francisco Lisboa (Aleijadinho), 1730-1814, Congonhas do Campo, Brazil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":71641,"id":71641,"title":"Jer36-Aleijadinho-Baruch","filename":"Jer36-Aleijadinho-Baruch.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Jer36-Aleijadinho-Baruch.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-post-biblical-baruch\/jer36-aleijadinho-baruch\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer36-aleijadinho-baruch","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":71640,"date":"2020-03-14 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