4 Baruch
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The Rest of the Words of Baruch or Paralipomena of Baruch (Ethiopian Säqoqawä Eremyas, "Paralipomena of Jeremiah") is the pseudepigraphical text that appears in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Old Testament Biblical canon
. It is not regarded as scripture by Jews
or any other Christian group.
This Ethiopian text, first edited by Dillmann in 1866 is formed by:
Biblical canon
A biblical canon, or canon of scripture, is a list of books considered to be authoritative as scripture by a particular religious community. The term itself was first coined by Christians, but the idea is found in Jewish sources. The internal wording of the text can also be specified, for example...
. It is not regarded as scripture by Jews
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
or any other Christian group.
This Ethiopian text, first edited by Dillmann in 1866 is formed by:
- the Book of LamentationsBook of LamentationsThe Book of Lamentations ) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah. It mourns the destruction of Jerusalem and the Holy Temple in the 6th Century BCE....
, in its five chapters as in the Hebrew BibleHebrew BibleThe Hebrew Bible is a term used by biblical scholars outside of Judaism to refer to the Tanakh , a canonical collection of Jewish texts, and the common textual antecedent of the several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament... - some addition to the Book of Lamentation: the epistle to the captives (Lam. 6) and the prophecy against Pashhur (Lam. 7 v. 1-5))
- a text very close to the Greek text of 4 Baruch4 BaruchThe Rest of the Words of Baruch or Paralipomena of Baruch is the pseudepigraphical text that appears in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Old Testament Biblical canon...
- some additional verses of Lamentation (Lam. 7 v. 6-11 v. 63)