The so-called Letter of Jeremiah (Bar 6) Origin, form and message
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https://doi.org/10.12775/BPTh.2014.011Keywords
Epistle of Jeremiah, Letter of Jeremiah, Book of Baruch, idolatry, polemics against polytheistic religion, Babylonian religion, satire against idolatryAbstract
The Letter of Jeremiah is probably a Greek composition written in the third century B.C. in the part of Mesopotamia influenced by the Hellenistic rule and culture. Even if its contents follows the biblical criticism against idolatry, it formulates the same ideas in a particular way. It has also absorbed some Greek criticisms against religion, known to us from Herodotus, Aesopic fables and some philosophers. This work is a satiric speech, what explains some its features, as the lack of objectivity and repetitious style. It seems better planned that it is usually assumed (introduction and ten strophes with two arguments each). It aims at convincing the Hellenized Jews that that should not be allured by the ostensible splendour of the pagan cult. The idols are only material objects, they have no capacity to act and their priests are corrupted.
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