Israel2 Baruch
Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
Anonymous (pseudonymously attributed to Jeremiah's scribe, Baruch ben Neriah) · c. AD 110-120, written in reaction to the Temple's destruction in AD 70; survives complete only in Syriac translation · Judea (exact place of composition uncertain) (Israel) · scripture
2 Baruch answers the same crisis as 4 Ezra, the Temple's second destruction, through visions and dialogues assigned to Jeremiah's scribe, arguing more consolingly than its counterpart that the earthly Temple's loss points toward a heavenly Jerusalem already prepared.
Descends from
- Jeremiah · oracles delivered c. 627-580s BC; prose sermons and final redaction continuing into the early Persian period, c. 500 BC
- 4 Ezra · c. AD 100-120, written in reaction to the Temple's destruction in AD 70 despite its fictional setting after the earlier, 6th-century BC destruction
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