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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Mark FrancisWhittersBaruch as Ezra in <i>2 Baruch</i>http://syriaca.org/cbss/C6HUPZUBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/C6HUPZUBhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/C6HUPZUBJournal of Biblical Literature132:32013569-5842 Baruch relies on the familiarity of its audience with biblical Ezra and his efforts to restore Israel after the Jews returned from their exile. In text and in characterization, 2 Baruch finds much to imitate in Ezra. In the popular imagination of the late Second Temple period, Ezra directed his coreligionists toward the systematic teaching of the law; just so 2 Baruch imagines its hero “Baruch” doing for his contemporaries. 2 Baruch therefore seeks to revitalize Israel in terms of law, community identity, Scripture, and even national expansion in an age of Jewish disenfranchisement.
Whitters, Mark Francis. “Baruch as Ezra in 2 Baruch.” Journal of Biblical Literature 132:3 (2013): 569–84.
Mark Francis Whitters, Baruch as Ezra in 2 Baruch,” Journal of Biblical Literature 132:3 (2013): 569–84.2 BaruchEzraOT apocrypha