Epistle of Jeremiah

Summary:

A homily attacking the folly of idolatry, credited to Jeremiah as a literary fiction.

Alternate Titles: Letter of Jeremiah, Epistle of Jeremy

Canonical Status:

• Among the Deuterocanonical books of Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox Churches

• Among the Old Testament Apocrypha of Protestants

• Not included in the Hebrew Scriptures - Tanak

• Chapter 6 of Baruch in the Septuagint, Vulgate, and King James Version
  
  

Author:

 

Date: late 4^th to early 1^st century BC

Original Language:

• Certain features of the Greek versions presume a semitic (Hebrew or Aramaic) Vorlage.

• Other early versions (Latin, Syriac, Arabic) are translations of the Greek.

Notes prepared by George Lyons
(Professor of Biblical Literature)

for the
Wesley Center for Applied Theology
at Northwest Nazarene University

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