Arabic Text of the Apocalypse of Baruch

Translator:   F. Leemhuis, A. F. J. Klijn, and G. J. H. Van Gelder
Publisher:   E. J. Brill, 1986


This edition has a parallel translation of the Syriac text.

The discovery of the Arabic text of this Jewish Apocalypse, usually dated at the end of the first century or the beginning of the second century C.E., is of considerable significance because, until now, it was only known from one manuscript with a Syriac text. The Arabic text is a translation of a Syriac version closely related to the existing Syriac text. There are eighty-seven chapters, many of which are very short.