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Beschreibung
2 Baruch is a Jewish pseudepigraphon 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 of both the apocalypse and epistle with a fresh English translation on the opposite page. Also present in parallel form are the few places where Greek and Latin texts of the book. An introduction orients readers to interpretative and textual issues of the book. Indexes and Concordances of the Syriac, Greek, and Latin will allow users to analyze the language of the text more carefully than ever before.
2 Baruch is a Jewish pseudepigraphon 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 of both the apocalypse and epistle with a fresh English translation on the opposite page. Also present in parallel form are the few places where Greek and Latin texts of the book. An introduction orients readers to interpretative and textual issues of the book. Indexes and Concordances of the Syriac, Greek, and Latin will allow users to analyze the language of the text more carefully than ever before.
Über den Autor
Daniel M. Gurtner (PhD, University of St Andrews) is Professor of New Testament at Gateway Seminary, USA. He has published a number of works on the Gospels and Second Temple Judaism, including the award-winning T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism (ed., with Loren T. Stuckenbruck, T&T Clark, 2019).
Zusammenfassung
Only concordance to the Syriac text of 2 Baruch (and that of Greek/Latin fragments)
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
§1: Introduction
§2: The Text of Second Baruch
§3: Original Language
§4: Provenance
§5: Relation to 4 Ezra
§6: Date
§7: Genre
§8: The Epistle of 2 Baruch
§9: Structure and Contents
§10: Translation(s)
2 Baruch: Text and Translation
Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
Epistle of Second Baruch
Indices:
Subject Index
Index of Ancient Texts
Concordances:
Concordance to the Syriac of 2 Baruch
Concordance to the Greek of 2 Baruch
Concordance to the Latin of 2 Baruch
Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Populäre Schriften
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780567046161
ISBN-10: 0567046168
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gurtner, Daniel M.
Daniel M. Gurtner, Daniel M.
Redaktion: Charlesworth, James H.
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Daniel M. Gurtner (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.02.2012
Gewicht: 0,374 kg
Artikel-ID: 132427724

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