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What Is the Third Book of Baruch?
1st–3rd Century
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The third book of Baruch, also known as the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch, was written in
Greek within the first few centuries after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The work
is preserved in Old Church Slavonic and Greek and includes likely Christian interpolations, with
explicitly Christian additions in the extant Greek version. The book outlines a series of revelations
to Baruch, Jeremiah’s scribe, presented in the context of a visionary ascent to the five heavens led by
an unnamed angelic being.
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Baskets of Flowers
3 Baruch 11–15
And the angel of power took me and led me to the fifth heaven. And he showed me large gates, and names of men were written (on them), and they were closed. And I said, “Lord, will these…
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The Grapevine in the Garden of Eden
3 Baruch 4:7–17
And the angel said to me, “When God made the garden and commanded Michael to gather two hundred thousand and three angels so that they could plant the garden, Michael planted the olive and Gabriel…
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Phoenix, Guardian of the World
3 Baruch 6:1–16
And taking me, he led me where the sun goes forth. And he showed me a chariot drawn by four horses and fire underneath it. And upon the chariot sat a man wearing a fiery crown. The chariot was drawn…
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What Are the Pseudepigrapha?
ca. 200 BCE–200 CE