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Title: Additions to Jeremiah


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Additions to Jeremiah
  • Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah

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In the Septuagint
  • Jeremiah short version and order
  • Baruch
  • Lamentations
  • Letter of Jeremiah

3
Baruch
4
Books Named Baruch
  • (First) Baruch This book
  • Second (Syriac Apocalypse of) Baruch
  • Third (Greek Apocalypse of) Baruch
  • Fourth Baruch Ethiopic title
  • Paraleipomena Ieremiou Greek title

5
Baruch in Jeremiah
  • 326-15 purchase of field
  • 36 the two scrolls
  • 431-7 taken to Egypt
  • 45 Jeremiahs discouraging message for Baruch

6
Structure of Baruch
  • Introduction 11-14
  • Prayer 115 38
  • Praise of Wisdom 39 44
  • Compare Job 28, Sirach 24
  • Zion
  • Jerusalems address to people 45-29
  • Address to Jerusalem 430 59

7
Miscellaneous
  • Exile and return
  • Cf. second Exodus theme in Deutero-Isaiah
  • Attitude towards Babylonian rulers?
  • Do the parts of Baruch fit together?

8
Letter of Jeremiah
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In the Vulgate
  • Jeremiah long form
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah
  • Baruch
  • Letter of Jeremiah

10
Structure of Book
  • Superscription (1)
  • Warning to Exiles-to-be (2-7)
  • Ten arguments against the idols (8-72)
  • with refrain
  • Conclusion of argument (73)

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Miscellaneous
  • Why does this letter get attached as the final
    chapter to Baruch rather than Jeremiah in the
    Vulgate?
  • How would these arguments work against
    twenty-first century American idolatries?
  • Are these arguments any different than those used
    by Islam against Christianity?
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