The book was originally written in Hebrew and has come down to us in a Greek translation made by the author's grandson, who prefixed to it a preface. Some leaves containing about 23 chapters in Hebrew were discovered at Cairo in 1896. It has no connection with Ecclesiastes. The Book of Baruch . So called because it purports to contain a work written by Baruch, the prophet, in Babylon, in the fifth year after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans.
Most scholars feel that it was probably composed at a later date.
Attached to the Book of Baruch is the so-called Epistle of Jeremy , purporting to be a letter written by the prophet Jeremiah to the Jews who were being carried away captive to Babylon. The Song of the Three Children . The History of Susanna . This story describes how Daniel as a young man procured the vindication of Susanna from a shameful charge, and the condemnation of the two elders who had borne false witness against her. Bel and the Dragon .