Baruch

Attributed to Baruch, the scribe and friend of Jeremiah — a compilation of four distinct compositions: a prose prayer of national confession, a wisdom poem identifying Torah with divine wisdom, and two poems of lamentation and consolation spoken by personified Jerusalem.|||The text is extant in Greek and in several translations from Greek into Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopic, and other languages. Although no Hebrew text survives, the Greek versions presume a Semitic Vorlage.|||Composite work originating between the 6th century BCE and the 1st century CE, though most scholars date the final form to the 2nd and mid-1st century BCE.|||Deuterocanonical in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Not canonical in Protestant or Jewish traditions.|||The only work among the Apocrypha consciously modeled after the prophetic writings of the Old Testament. Key text for understanding the identification of Torah with divine wisdom.|||Moore, C. A. " Baruch." In The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxford, 1993.|||Charlesworth, J. H., ed. The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1. Doubleday, 1983.|||Burke, D. G. The Book of Baruch. SBL, 2015.|||Baruch — Early Jewish Writings|https://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/baruch.html|Full translation and scholarly resources.;; Baruch — Wikipedia|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Baruch|Background and scholarly discussion.|||" This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures forever." — Baruch 4:1