Second (Syriac) apocalypse of Baruch

Originally in Greek, but surviving only in Syriac, 2 Baruch was written by a Jewish author, sometime in the late first or early second century, CE. It is likely a response to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, rather than the earlier destruction by the Babylonians which it purports to mourn.

2 Baruch 10:7-8

From the translation by A.F.J. Klijn, found in James Charlesworth's The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1, (Doubleday, 1983).

Notes

[1] "Lilin" is a masculine plural form, so these demons are not liliths in the normal sense, but rather their male counterparts.

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