Second Book of Baruch

The Second Book of Baruch is a document included in collections of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha.

Bibliography

Texts, translations, books

• 2000s
  • Liv Ingeborg Lied, The Other Lands of Israel: Imaginations of the Land in 2 Baruch (Leiden: Brill, 2008)
  • Mark F. Whitters, The Epistle of Second Baruch: A Study in Form and Message (London: Sheffield Academic, 2003)
  • J. Edward Wright, Baruch Ben Neriah: From Biblical Scribe to Apocalyptic Seer (Studies on Personalities of the Old Testament; Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003)
  • Rivka Nir, The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Idea of Redemption in the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch (Atanta, GA: SBL, 2002)

• 1990s
  • Klaus Berger, Synopse des Vierten Buches Esra und der Syrischen Baruch-Apokalypse (Tübingen : Francke, 1992)

• 1980
  • Tom W. Willett, Eschatology in the Theodicies of 2 Baruch and 4 Ezra (Sheffield: JSOT, 1989)
  • Paolo Bettiolo, "Apocalisse siriaca di Baruc," in Paolo Sacchi (ed.), Apocrifi dell'Antico Testamento, vol.2 (Turin: UTET, 1989), pp. 147 - 233 - Italian translation
  • Jean Hadot, "Apocalypse syriaque de Baruch," in André Dupont-Sommer and Marc Philonenko (eds.), La Bible. Écrits intertestamentaires (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 337; Paris: Gallimard, 1987), pp.1471-1557 - French translation
  • Frederick J. Murphy, The Structure and Meaning of Second Baruch (Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1985)
  • Gwendolyn B. Sayler, Have the Promises Failed?: A Literary Analysis of 2 Baruch (Chico, CA: Scholars, 1984)
  • A.F.J. Klijn, "2 (Syriac Apocalypse of) Baruch," in James H. Charlesworth (ed.), The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (2 vols.; New York: Doubleday, 1983, 1985) - English translation

• 1970s
  • Raphael J. Bidawid, Apocalypse of Baruch (The Old Testament in Syriac, 4; Leiden: Brill, 1973)

• 1960s
  • Wolfgang Harnisch, Verhängnis und Verheissung der Geschichte. Untersuchungen zum Zeit- und Geschichtsverständnis im 4. Buch Esra und in der syr. Baruchapokalypse (Göttingen, Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, 1969)
  • Pierre Bogaert, Apocalypse de Baruch <French> (2 vols.; Paris: Cerf, 1969)

• 1910s
  • Robert Henry Charles, The Apocalypse of Baruch, with an Introduction by William O.E. Oesterley (London: SPCK, 1917)
  • Robert Henry Charles, "2 Baruch, or The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch." in Robert Henry Charles (ed.), Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament (2 vols.; Oxford: 1913)


• 1890s
  • Robert Henry Charles, The Apocalypse of Baruch (London: Black, 1890)

• 1870s
  • Johann Jacob Kneucker, Das Buch Baruch: Geschichte und Kritik, Ubersetzung und Erklärung auf Grund des wiederhergestellten hebräischen Urtextes, mit einem Anhang über den pseudepigraphischen Baruch (Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1879)
  • Antonio Maria Ceriani, "Apocalypsis Baruch Syriace," in Monumenta sacra et profana (Tomus V, fasc. 2; Mediolani, 1871), p.113-167 - Syriac text

• 1860s
  • Joseph Langen, De Apocalypsi Baruch: anno superiori primum edita: commentatio quam pro aditu muneris professoris ordinarii (Friburgi in Brisgovia: In Libraria Herderiana, 1867)
  • Antonio Maria Ceriani, "Apocalypsis Baruch, olim de graeco in syriacum, et nunc de syriaco in latinum translata" in Monumenta sacra et profana (Tomus I, fasc. 2; Mediolani, 1866), pp. i-iii, 73-95 - Syriac text

Major articles

• 2000s
  • Matthias Henze, "Qoheleth and the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch," Vetus Testamentum 58/1 (2008), pp. 28-43
  • Preston Sprinkle, "The Afterlife in Romans. Understanding Paul's Glory Motif in Light of the Apocalypse of Moses and 2 Baruch," in Michael Labahn and Manfred Lang (eds.), Lebendige Hoffnung - ewiger Tod?! Jenseitsvorstellungen im Hellenismus, Judentum und Christentum (Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte, 24; Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2007), pp. 201-233
  • Matthias Henze, "From Jeremiah to Baruch: Pseudepigraphy in the Syriac Apocalypse," in Charlotte Hempel and Judith M. Lieu (eds.), Biblical Traditions in Transmission. Essays in Honour of Michael A. Knibb (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 111; Leiden, Brill, 2006), pp.157-177
  • Martin Leuenberger, "Ort und Funktion der Wolkenvision und ihrer Deutung in der syrischen Baruchapokalypse. Eine These zu deren thematischer Entfaltung," Journal for the Study of Judaism 36/2 (2005), pp. 206-246.
  • Mark F. Whitters, "Testament and Canon in the Letter of Second Baruch (2 Baruch 78-87)," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 12/2 (2002), pp.149-163
  • Daniel J. Harrington, "Afterlife Expectations in Pseudo-Philo, 4 Ezra, and 2 Baruch, and Their Implications for the New Testament," in R. Bieringer, et al. (eds.), Resurrection in the New Testament. Festschrift J. Lambrecht (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 165; Leuven: Peeters, 2002), p.21-34
  • Shannon Burkes, "Life Redefined: Wisdom and Law in Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 63/1 (2001), pp. 55-71

• 1990s
  • Adriana Drint, "Some Notes on the Arabic Versions of IV Ezra and the Apocalypse of Baruch in MS Mt Sinai Arabic Codex 589," Parole de l'Orient 24 (1999), pp. 165-177
  • Antti Laato, "The Apocalypse of the Syriach Baruch and the Date of the End," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 18 (1998), pp. 39-46
  • J. Edward Wright, "Baruch: His Evolution from Scribe to Apocalyptic Seer," in Michael E. Stone and Theodore A. Bergren (eds.), Biblical Figures Outside the Bible (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1998), pp. 264-289
  • J. Edward Wright, "The Social Setting of the Syriac Apocalpse of Baruch," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 16 (1997), pp. 81-96
  • J. Edward Wright, "Baruch, the Ideal Sage," in Joseph E. Coleson and Victor H. Matthews (eds.), "Go to the Land I Will Show You". Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1996), pp. 193-210.
  • Nicolae Roddy, "Two Parts, Weeks of Seven Weeks: The End of the Age as Terminus ad Quem for 2 Baruch," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 14 (1996), pp.3-14
  • Richard Bauckham, "The Messianic Interpretation of Isa. 10:34 in the Dead Sea Scrolls, 2 Baruch and the Preaching of John the Baptist," Dead Sea Discoveries 2/2 (1995), pp. 202-216

• 1980s
  • Frederick J. Murphy, "The Temple in the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch," Journal of Biblical Literature 106 (1987), pp. 671-683.
  • Albertus Frederik J. Klijn, "The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch,} in Marinus de Jonge (ed.), Outside the Old Testament (Cambridge Commentaries on Writings of the Jewish and Christian World, 4; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp.193-212.
  • Frederick J. Murphy, "2 Baruch and the Romans," Journal of Biblical Literature 104 (1985), pp. 663-669
  • Domingo Muñoz León, "Tradiciones targúmicas en el Baruc Siríaco (II Baruc)," in Natalio Fernández Marcos, et al. (eds.), Simposio Bíblico Español. Salamanca, 1982 (Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 1984), pp.523-552
  • Pierre-Maurice Bogaert, "Jérusalem chez les pseudépigraphes (II Esdras et II Baruch)," in Armand Abecassis, et al. (eds.), Jerusalem dans les traditions juives et chrétiennes (Louvain: Peeters, 1982), pp.15-23
  • Jacob Licht, "An Analysis of Baruch's Prayer (Syr. Bar. 21)," in Geza Vermes and Jacob Neusner (eds.), Essays in Honour of Yigael Yadin (Journal of Jewish Studies, 33; Oxford: Oxford Centre Postgr. Hebrew Studies, 1982), pp. 327-331

External links

• The Online Critical Pseudepigrapha
• Wikipedia