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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461376903321

Autore

Whitters Mark F

Titolo

The Epistle of second baruch [[electronic resource] ] : a study in form and message / / Mark F. Whitters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Sheffield Academic Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-20070-8

9786613200709

0-567-56778-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the Pseudepigrapha. Supplement series ; ; 42

Library of Second Temple studies

Disciplina

229.506

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references(p. [169]-187) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 SURVEY OF THE TEXTUAL TRADITION AND CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP; Chapter 2 STRUCTURE AND COMPONENTS OF ApB AND Ep2B; Chapter 3 LETTER-WRITING MODELS FOR Ep2B; Chapter 4 THE ORIGIN AND MILIEU OF Ep2B; Excursus 1 WHEN WAS THE BOOK WRITTEN?; Excursus 2 TESTAMENT AND Ep2B; Select Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

2 Baruch is one of the more important apocalyptic writings among the Jewish Pseudepigrapha (written at the end of the 1st century AD and so contemporary with the New Testament). The Epistle is a message to the Jews of the Dispersion. Whitters is arguing that the document was once an authoritative text for a specific community, and gives us clues about the important era between the two Jewish wars of 70 and 132 AD, when Judaism was assuming radical new forms. This Epistle tells Diapora Jews how to live in a world without the Jerusalem Temple.