Second Baruch : a critical edition of the Syriac text : with Greek and Latin fragments, English translation, introduction, and concordances
"Second Baruch is a Jewish writing from the late first or early second century CE. It is comprised of an apocalypse (2 Baruch 1-77) and an epistle (2 Baruch 78-87). This ancient work addresses the important matter of theodicy in light of the destruction of the temple by the Romans in 70 CE. It depicts vivid and puzzling pictures of apocalyptic images in explaining the nature of the tragedy and exhorting its ancient community of readers." "Gurtner provides the first publication of the Syriac text of both the apocalypse and the epistle with a fresh English translation on the opposite page. Also present in parallel form are the few instances where Greek and Latin texts of the book are extant. An introduction orients readers to interpretative and textual issues of the book and indexes and concordances of the Syriac, Greek, and Latin allow users to analyze the language of the text more carefully than ever before." --Book Jacket
Print Book, English, 2009
T & T Clark Ltd., New York, 2009