Epistle of Jeremy

Jeremy, Epistle of

Jeremy, Epistle of, or Letter of Jeremiah. A short item in the OT Apocrypha. In what purports to be a letter, Jeremiah declaims to the exiles in Babylon against the folly of idol-worship. It was probably written in Greek in the 3rd or 2nd cent. BC. In the Vulgate and some English Bibles it appears as Bar. 6.

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Jeremy, Epistle of

Jeremy, Epistle of. Jewish apocryphal book. The date is uncertain (4th–2nd cent. BCE). It purports to be a letter of the prophet Jeremiah to the Jewish exiles in Babylon.

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JOHN BOWKER. "Jeremy, Epistle of." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

JOHN BOWKER. "Jeremy, Epistle of." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-JeremyEpistleof.html

JOHN BOWKER. "Jeremy, Epistle of." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-JeremyEpistleof.html

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