The Book of Baruch in the Coptic Manichaean tradition

Record summary

The Manichaean Book of Baruch is known through Coptic and related evidence and presents a distinctive religious account connected with Manichaean teaching, cosmology, and prophetic authority. Its modern study contributes to comparisons of revelation, dualist myth, and the reuse of biblical names in late antique Egypt. It is not the same work as the Jewish or Christian Apocalypse of Baruch. Manuscript fragments, translation choices, and reconstruction of the text’s original structure create substantial uncertainty, so researchers should work from critical editions rather than generalized summaries.