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Rest of the Words of Baruch

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It is not regarded as scripture by any other Christian group or by Jews . This Ethiopian text, first edited by August Dillmann in 1866 is formed by: the Book of Lamentations , in its five chapters as in the Hebrew Bible some addition to the Book of Lamentation: the epistle to the captives (Lam. 6) and the prophecy against Pashhur (Lam. 7 v. 1–5)) a text very close to the Greek text of 4 Baruch some additional verses of Lamentation (Lam. 7 v. 6–11 v. 63) Dillmann A. Introduction to classical Ethiopic (Ge'ez) , Missoula 1978, 276–297. See also critical edition by P.1

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