Library/Deuterocanon
Letter of Jeremiah
A relentless mockery of idols: they cannot save, cannot rise if they fall, cannot brush the dust off their own faces. Often numbered as Baruch 6.
- Status
- Catholic & Orthodox deuterocanon
- Date
- c. 300–100 BCE
- Languages
- Greek
- Setting
- A sermon against idols, framed as Jeremiah’s letter to exiles
What it contains
- Polemic against cult-statues
Why it sits outside most canons
Same deuterocanonical fate as Baruch.
Themes
- Idolatry
- Exile
- Satire
Passages
Ep Jer 1:11
They cannot save a man from death or rescue the weak from the strong.