Baruch
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Baruch (בָּרוּךְ"Blessed", Standard Hebrew Baruḫ, Tiberian Hebrew Bārûḵ) may refer to:
- Book of Baruch or 1 Baruch, a deuterocanonical book, considered by Jews and most Protestants to be apocryphal
- 2 Baruch, also called the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
- 3 Baruch, also called the Greek Apocalypse of Baruch
- 4 Baruch, also known as the Paraleipomena of Jeremiah when combined with the Epistle of Jeremy
- Baruch ben Neriah, aid to the prophet Jeremiah
- Baruch (His Dark Materials), a fictional angel in the His Dark Materials series
- Baruch Plan, a proposed U.S. atomic energy plan following WWII
- Baruch College, part of the City University of New York
Baruch may also be used for:
- Baruch, son of Zabbai; one of Nehemiah's helpers in repairing the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 3:20)
- Baruch, son of Col-Hozeh; a member of the Tribe of Judah who settled in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 11:5)
- The Baruch of Baghdad, the king of the Saracens in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
[edit] People with the surname Baruch
- Bernard Baruch, American financier
[edit] People with the given name Baruch
- Baruch Spinoza, a philosopher
- Baruch Goldstein, an American-Israeli physician who attacked Muslim worshippers in 1994