Law, Wisdom, and the Poetics of Precarity in the Book of Baruch
The audience for the book of Baruch is portrayed as a subjugated and demoralized transnational group struggling to develop viable forms of subjectivity in the wake of self-inflicted trauma. At the heart of the book is a liturgical poem about the law and wisdom that summons its readers to repent, rat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2025, Volume: 56, Issue: 3, Pages: 273-296 |
| Further subjects: | B
Wisdom
B Law B Exile B Baruch B Trauma |
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| Summary: | The audience for the book of Baruch is portrayed as a subjugated and demoralized transnational group struggling to develop viable forms of subjectivity in the wake of self-inflicted trauma. At the heart of the book is a liturgical poem about the law and wisdom that summons its readers to repent, rather than surrender their “glory” to foreign entities (3:9–4:4). Inspecting the poem alongside the oracle against Tyre in Ezek 28 and the nomistic poem about wisdom in T. Levi 13 sheds light on a number of the poem’s features, including its configurations of myth, its rubrics of agency, and its relation to other parts of the book. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700631-bja10100 |
