Between “Text Witness” and “Text on the Page”: Trajectories in the History of Editing the Epistle of Baruch

Lied, Liv Ingeborg; Lundhaug, Hugo

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“…The copies of these two epistles in the Codex Ambrosianus (on folios 176v-177v and 265v-267r, respectively) share 81.2% of the text. 22 This means that the text of these epistles in the Syriac tradition are clearly related, but that the Codex Ambrosianus identifies them by different titles and locates them in distinct collection contexts: they are in this sense different works (Lied 2017(Lied , 2021. 23 The full initial title of the First Epistle of Baruch the Scribe in the Codex Ambrosianus is the "First Epistle of Baruch the Scribe, Which He Sent from the Midst of Jerusalem to Babylon" (f. 176v).…”

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“…The question of the origins of the Epistle of Baruch the Son of Neriah (2 Bar 78-86) and the First Epistle of Baruch the Scribe (Peshitta Jeremiah corpus) is a long-standing one (Lied 2017). Some scholars have suggested that both originated with 2 Baruch as a single epistle (e.g., Ceriani 1883), whereas others have proposed that they originated with a common ancestor (e.g., Charles 1896).…”

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“…36 For scholars of 2 Baruch, a major motivation has been to approximate the original or, at least, an early version of 2 Baruch-the text that existed before it got translated into Syriac. However, as some of the scholars who have explored the manuscript history of the epistles have noted (e.g., Bogaert 1969;Lied 2017), the origins or early versions of the epistles are not immediately accessible. The oldest extant manuscripts of either epistle date to the sixth/seventh centuries.…”

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“…77. 36 For a larger and more nuanced debate, see (Bogaert 1969;Dedering n.d.;Whitters 2003;Henze 2011;Doering 2013;Lied 2017Lied , 2021. 37 London,British Library,Add 17,105 and Milan,Biblioteca Ambrosiana,B 21 inf.…”

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Epistles from Jerusalem: The Paratexts of Syriac 2 Baruch and the Peshitta Jeremiah Corpus

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This article explores the paratexts of the epistles attributed to Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah, in Syriac, Peshitta Old Testament manuscripts. In early manuscripts, the epistles ascribed to the figure Baruch are, most commonly, either included in the Jeremiah corpus or embedded in the work known as 2 Baruch. This article argues that 2 Baruch has had a larger influence on the Syriac Christian corpus-building and literary imagination than has been hitherto acknowledged. This hypothesis would explain both the inclusion of two epistles of Baruch in the Peshitta Jeremiah corpus and the appearance of unprecedented readings in the titles and introductory addresses of the epistles attributed to Baruch in this corpus.

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A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission

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The corpus of Jewish literature of the Second Temple period is represented in the Syriac tradition by biblical pseudepigrapha (especially of apocalyptic genre) and Josephus. The extant Syriac manuscripts containing these documents belong to the period spanning the sixth to the twentieth centuries. Like the majority of not originally Syriac writings, many texts in the corpus under discussion have been translated from Greek. Some of these texts have been preserved uniquely in Syriac, while others have parallel versions in other languages of Christian Orient. Some texts must be faithful renderings of ancient originals. Other texts in their present form are products of late antique or medieval reworking in Greek or Syriac. Differentiating between ancient and medieval, as well as between Jewish and Christian, materials is not always easy.

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Between “Text Witness” and “Text on the Page”: Trajectories in the History of Editing the Epistle of Baruch

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