| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 447 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Commentaries on early Jewish literature
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Commentaries on early Jewish literature.
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| Note |
Presents, with extensive commentary, two English-language recensions of the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch, printed synoptically in parallel columns, with one column drawing on Greek sources, the other on Slavonic sources. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-85) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Purposes and Methods -- Manuscript evidence -- Scholarship -- Original language -- Date -- Provenance -- Content -- Message -- Method -- Worldview -- General conclusions -- Bibliography -- Translation and commentary. |
| Summary |
This work provides the key to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts preserved in Greek and Slavonic. 3 Baruch, properly read, significantly enriches our understanding of the history of the motifs found in early Jewish lore, at times providing missing links between different stages of their development, and preserves important evidence on the roots of Jewish mysticism, proto-Gnostic and proto-Christian traditions. New volume of much valued commentary series Provides the key to one of the most enigmatic Jewish Hellenistic texts (so far neglected by modern scholarship for its complex. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Greek Apocalypse of Baruch. |
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Greek Apocalypse of Baruch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Greek Apocalypse of Baruch. |
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Griechische Baruchapokalypse. |
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Apocryphal books.
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Apocryphal books. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Three Baruch |
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Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch |
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Apocalypse of Baruch |
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Greek Apocalypse of Baruch. English.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kulik, Alexander. 3 Baruch. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, ©2010 9783110212488 (DLC) 2010002481 (OCoLC)501404314 |
| ISBN |
9783110212495 (electronic book) |
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3110212498 (electronic book) |
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311021248X (alkaline paper) |
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9783110212488 (alkaline paper) |
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9783110212488 (23 x 15,5 cm ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612716287 |
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