Library/Old Testament pseudepigrapha
3 Baruch (Greek Apocalypse)
Baruch is shown a more folkloric heaven: a phoenix that flies with the sun, the builders of Babel as monsters, a dragon who drinks a cubit of sea a day. Less theodicy than 2 Baruch, more cabinet of wonders.
- Status
- Pseudepigrapha
- Date
- 1st–2nd century CE
- Languages
- Greek · Slavonic
- Setting
- Five heavens; a phoenix; the tower-builders
What it contains
- Ascent of five heavens
- Phoenix and sun
- Tower-builders
- Rewards
Why it sits outside most canons
Never canonical; a curiosity of the ascent genre.
Themes
- Heavens
- Phoenix
- Babel
- Reward
Passages
3 Baruch 6
The phoenix runs with the sun, and spreads its wings to receive the fire-rays, that they may not destroy the earth.